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offers total control of 
recording and play-back. 



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A series of advanced tech- 
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Creating interactive hotspots 
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CONTENTS 



VOLUME 9, NUMBER 7, JULY 1993 



FEATURES 

Fluid Form 

By Lennard Price 24 

Three-dimensional liquid effects — waves, 
ripples, molten metals, even gases — are some 
of the hottest commercial animation effects. 
Learn how you can create them like the pros 
with Amiga 3-D graphics packages. 

Digital Canvas 28 

In keeping with our '5-D graphics focus diis 
month — and in appreciation of the many 
works s<> kindly submitted by artists — we bring 
back OUT "galleiy" from the ear])' days of .-I If". 



1+1=3(D)! 

ByJoelHagen. 30 

Creating "stereo pairs" is the :i-I> kev in this 
tutorial I .earn how to produce images and 
animations you can view in stereo 3-D. 

ARTICLES 

The PC Connection 

By Dave Johnson [J3 

If you need IBM PC emulation on your Ami- 
ga, here's a comparative evaluation of eight 
leading l'( : bridgeboards/emulaloss to help 
put you squarely at (he A: prompt. 

Put on the Hex 

By Jim Maciorowski 43 

Computer viruses can attack your system at 
any time. Learn these practical preventive 
measures and find out about a new European 
crop of potent virus-killing programs. 

COLUMNS 

Editor's Drawer By Dennis Brisson . . 4 
A recent deal between Commodore and 
NewTek puts die hitter's flagship product 
squarely back in the fanner's camp. 

Accent on Graphics 

By Joel Hagen 48 

If you liked Joel's feature ibis mouth on ,'S-D 
stereo graphics (p. 30), here are some inex- 
pensive follow-up tips on outputting such 
images for use with optical viewers. 

Video Suite 

By Joel Testier and Michael Hanish .... 50 

In this lirsi installment of a two-patter on 
troubleshooting vour video productions, our 

DOVER IMAGE BY ERIK I'l.OM 

COVER PI iOTOGRAl'II BY EDWARD JUDICE 




You may have seen some scenes from Erik Hum's 
mcredibk imaginary fine-arts museum before, Imt 
not this one: ilmn created it just for our cover. He 

mmleled nil the objects from scratch on an A3II0O 
using iXeieTek's UghtWave 3D 2.0; the paintings 
came from CompuServe's fine-arts Ubnay. Horn, 

who runs u 3-D production service (ELF Work in 
Alameda. CA), begun the museum o.\ an exjieriment 
in photorealism. 1 1 'r think he succeeded! 



video team shows you where to look when you 
can't see the cause of your signal problems. 

Player's Choice Contest 85 

Pick your all-lime favorite Amiga games — 
and win an -Amiga 1 200 in the bargain — in 
/Ill's first-ever Player's Choice Contest. 



DEPARTMENTS 

Overscan 8 

You'll find plenty of Amiga news and new 
products that deserve "scanning" this month. 

Help Key 92 

Help yourself to some free advice as Tim 
answers technical questions from our readers. 

List of Advertisers 94 

The Last Word 104 

for 29 cents you can step up to the box and 
take your swings. 



REVIEWS 

V-Lab V3.I (MaeroSystems) 16 

Powerful 24-bit video-digitizer combo. 

VistaPro 3.0 

(Virtual Reality Laboratories) 20 

AGA upgrade ut the landscape-generation program, 

DSS8+ Digital Sound Studio 
(GVP) 64 

Accent the "plus" in diis sampling/editing 
package update. 

Professional Page 4.0 (Cold Dish) . . 64 
Pro Page DTP for AGA Amigas. 

Retina (MaeroSystems) 68 

New low-cost 24-bit display card. 

MBX 1200Z (MicroBotics) 70 

A 1 200 RAM expansion/FPU card combo. 

SQ5110C Removable Cartridge 

Disk Drive (Syquest) , 72 

Convenient mass storage in 44/88MB versions. 

Pro-Board 3.0 (Prolific) 72 

Do-it-yourself prinlcd-cimiil -hoard maker. 

GAMES 

Crib Notes By Peter Olafson 76 

Once more to the brink with Shadow or the 
Beast III in this mouth's gaming tips column. 

Bard's Tale Construction Kit 

(Interplay) 76 

Roll vour own versions of the classic Amiga 
RPG favorite. 

Legends of Valour (U.S. Gold) 78 

Smooth-flowing, free-scrolling RPG mport 

Short Takes 82 

Capsule reviews of new Amiga games. 



A W Product 

Information 1 02 

To contact ihe developer of any product 
mentioned in this issue of AmigaWorld, 
consult our all-in-one "Manufacturers'/ 
Distributors' Addresses" list. 



AmigaWorld 3 



EDITOR'S DRAWER 

Commodore and NewTek join forces to 

bring you the Video Toaster 4000. 



A Marriage Made in Video Heaven? 
The bifr news coming out of the National Association of 
Broadcasters (NAB) show last month did not take many 
Amiga users by surprise. Alter all, For the past few months, 
rumors of a 4000-compatible Video Toaster have been as 
widespread as mushrooms in May, How the announcement 
was presented generated the excitement. It was promoted 
as "a joint marketing cflbrt" between NewTek and Com- 
modore. The display of cordiality and good fellowship 
between these two video titans was unprecedented. James 
Dionne, Commodore President and General Manager, 
commented, "Commodore is pleased to join NewTek as 
they announce the Video Toaster 4000. . . " NewTek's presi- 
dent, Tim Jenntson, reciprocated with similar words prais- 
ing "this powerful combination of new technologies. .." 

The announcement ushers in a new era of cooperation 
between Commodore and NewTek and threatens to bring 
a smile to even the most crusty, hardened Amiga veteran. It 
also signals the beginning of a burgeoning support market 
for the Toaster 4000, which, if the NAB show is any indica- 
tion, promises to eclipse that shown for its predecessor. (See 
p. 8 fir more on the Video Toaster 4000 and a roundup of sup- 
port products.) 

The 4000 version of the Video Toaster is newly designed 
to fit exactly into the dedicated 4000 video slot — no modifi- 
cations necessary! — and to take advantage of the new A.GA 
chip set. In naming its new product, NewTek alludes to the 
source of the power behind the new Toaster magic, that is, 
the A4000. If you check out the ads for the new Toaster, 
you'll be pleased to identify right away the Commodore 
equipment that the Toaster uses: No more hiding the fact 
that the Toaster runs on an Amiga. Since the Toaster is so 
inextricably lied into the Amiga's custom chips, it never 
made much sense, anyway, to try to hide the Amiga's role. 

This new computing glasnost promises more visibility and 
an elevated status for Commodore's machines, and promis- 
es to deliver video power to the legion of Amiga users. 

Video Toaster 4000 features a new, improved version of 
NewTek's LightWave software, with increased speed and 
ease of use. (Lightwave is already used extensively in Holly- 
wood.) Other features include a new, easier-to-use interface 
and hundreds of eye-popping effects — from the simple to 
the complex. In addition, a new mouse-controlled charac- 
ter generator greatly expands your tilling options. 

Extra features, power, convenience, and, besi of all. a low 
price. If you're a dedicated Toaster user, then you need no 
further convincing that Toaster 4000 is for you. If you're 
still wondering what the '"revolution" is all about, now may 
be a good time for you to lake a serious look al this new 
Toaster, which is due next month in computer stores. 
AmigaWorldma follow this announcement with a hands-on 
review of NewTek's new hardware/software combo for the 
A4000. Stay tuned. 



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Editor-in-Chief 



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A. AMIGA-"-- THE VIOEOGRAPHER'S VIDEO-MAKIKG COMPUTER. FOR ANIMATION, GRAPHICS. CH ARACTER GENERATION, AUDiO, 

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• Software selection of 2 composite video inputs or 1 Y/C 
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THAT YOU EVER DREAMED AN AUDIO SAMPLER COULD BE... 



We'll say it loud and cleai: If you have an Amiga', you need DSS8+"! 

There's a brand new standard in quality for 8-bit audio on the 
Amiga: GVP's DSS8t. We've integrated utterly-unbeatable sound 
with an impressive collection of features never before found in any sampler. 

You can shop around to your heart's desire, but you won't find a 
sampler with clearer sound or more features anywhere at any price 
— why? Because the PLUS in DSS8+ means that we 



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• Now over 255 settings for input gain including 
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• Over 127 settings for our new Low Pass Filter. (Noise reduction!! 

• Incredibly high Dynamic Range thanks to DSS8+'s DC Offset 
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Amigas. (Power to the People!) 

• Separate microphone jack for simultaneous voice-over and music 
recording. (Home Video!) 

• A solid secure fit onto the Amiga for minimal signal loss. (No 
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« Our renowned full-featured sample editing and music com- 
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OVERSCAN 

News, AAew Products and Networks 



NAB '93 Toasts New Toaster 4000 



LAS VEGAS, NV— High-profile Amiga ac- 
tion astounded many of the more than 
70,000 attendees at the 1993 National As- 
sociation of Broadcasters |NAB) conference 
in late April. Set against the ersatz glitter of 
Las Vegas at the sprawling Las Vegas Hilton, 
the show featured the video-oriented prod- 
ucts of hundreds of hardware and software 
manufacturers. 

Commodore arrived boothless, but at a 
pre-show NewTek/Commodore press con- 
ference, CBM President James Dionne an- 
nounced an olive-branch liaison between 
the two companies and the mid-May re- 
lease of the closely-guarded AGA-compati- 
ble Toaster 4000. |RS# 13S). 

Lights . . . Camera . . .Amiga ! 

NewTek's dynamic circular booth in the 
crowded main video hall allowed company 
personalities to perform three nonconflict- 
ing demos simultaneously. Effectively cap- 
turing all but the most jaundiced eyes of the 
desensitized crowds, huge video monitors 
flashed 3-D-embellished videos, transitions, 
and wipes (some included sound effects), 



while high-decibel lectures bellowed the 
virtues of the Toaster 4000. Overall, 
NewTek's display held its own, even when 
compared to the far costlier high-end video 
effects and HDTV productions throughout 
the exhibition. 

The Toaster 4000 sported a new look for 
spring, thanks in no small part to a Post- 
Script-font-compatible 24-bit Toaster char- 





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The AGA-compatible Video Toaster 4000. 



acter generator (CG). Expectations were 
kept in check, though, as the occasional sys- 
tem crash and glossy press kits sans de- 
tailed spec sheets reminded everyone of the 
miles to go before NewTek sleeps. But with 
its release imminent, A W readers can watch 
for in-depth Toaster 4000 coverage in up- 
coming issues. 

The rebirth of the Amiga began, but did 
not end, with NewTek. Highly visible next to 
an enormous Sony extravaganza in the 
main hall sat a large and well-appointed 
Digital Processing Systems exhibit. Like 
nearly all vendors touting Amiga wares at 
NAB, DPS proclaimed Toaster compatibili- 
ty with its Persona! Component Adaptor 
(PCA) card (S499|. Designed to work with in- 
creasingly popular S-Video equipment, PCA 
adds two Y/C and one Betacam/MII outputs, 
along with three Y/C inputs, to the Toaster. 

For the Toaster and Toasterless alike, 
DPS previewed its Personal Animation 
Recorder (S1995) card, which can replace 
VCRs and single-frame controllers. Sup- 
porting direct-to-hard-disk rendering of 24- 
Continued on p. 10. 



Even Faster A1200 

Want to speed up your A1200? The 
M1230 XA (from S399, MicroBotics) will 
accelerate your A1200 up to live times 
faster than the native configuration. De- 
sirable for demanding applications such 
as animation, ray-tracing, and morphing, 
the M 1230 XA offers a 68030 processor, 
a (58882 FPU, a real-time clock, and the 
option to install up to 128MB of fast 
RAM through SIMMs. Although the 50 
MHz '030 is the standard installation, the 
Ml 230 XA is also available with a 33 
MHz "03(1 ora-K) MHz H( 1030 (no MML'). 
MBRTEST-2, a diagnostic program for 
memory, and SetXA, a configuration util- 
ity, are included. M1230 XA is DOS 3.0 
compatible. Price varies with the addi- 
tion of memoir and FPU. (RS# 124). 



Another Stereo View 

It wasn't until after "1 + 1=3(0)1" (p. 30) went to press that AmigaWorld learned of 
another means to see in stereo. Unlike X-Specs 3-D (Haitex), the original stereo gogs 
for the Amiga, MegageM's AmiVR — a video interface and liquid-crystal-shutter glass- 
es combo— plugs in to the video-out port of any Amiga (use with the A3000 or A4000 
also requires Commodore's A520 video adapter). AmiVR synchronizes the glasses di- 
rectly from the Amiga video signal's sync. By connecting the interface to your VCR's 
output and running the supplied cable to your NTSC monitor, you can use AmiVR in- 
dependently of your Amiga to see stereo 3-D movies. 

Instead of X-Specs' over-under picture format, AmiVR uses a full-screen format that 
alternately displays left and right views (seen without the glasses, the image flickers). 
Used with Animatrix Modeler, AmiVR lets you model in LightWave 3D and see your 
objects in "true" 3-D. Imagine 2.0, VistaPro 3.0, and Imagemaster's merge facility can 
create left and right views for merging into stereo images. 

The system comes in two configurations, both of which include an interface, cable, 
power supply, and case. The AmiVRI package (S269) also provides one pair of glass- 
es and one stereo 3D videotape of your choice (MegageM stocks a large selection of 
movies, documentaries, travelogues, and more). AmiVR2 ($369) provides two sets of 
| glasses and two tapes. {RS# 150.) 



To locate the vendors of products mentioned, see the "Manufacturers'/Distributors' Addresses" list on p. 102. 



8 July 1993 



We don't know from friendly skies. 



You've beat all the flight sims? A furball 
doesn't raise a sweat anymore? Ten minutes 
of WWI combat isn't even challenging? 

Hmm... 

Maybe you are ready for Air Warrior". 

That is, if you think you can handle the 
most realistic combat Hying there is. Because 
Air Warrior does more than correctly model 28 
different WWII aircraft, complete with spins, 
stalls and buffeting. 

It puts you up against other human beings. 
Online, in real time, for as long as you care 
to play. 

That's why Air Warrior attracts the aces. 
So if you're just looking to do a friendly loop- 



the-loop, look elsewhere. If you're interested in 
a career, sign on to Air Warrior — only on GEnie*. 

Sign up now: 

1. Set communication software for 8 1 N or 7 1 E 
half duplex (local echo) at 300, 1 200 or 2400 
baud. 2. Dial toll free: 1-800-638-8369. 
Immediately upon connection, enter HHH 
3. At the U#= prompt, enter XTX99229.COMB AT 
then press RETURN 4. Have a major credit 
card ready. In the U.S., you may use your 
checking account number. (There is a $2 
monthly fee for all checking accounts.) For 
more information in the U.S. or Canada, 
call 1-800-638-9636. 




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From p.8. 

bit IFFs and Toaster framestores. Personal 
Animation Recorder writes animation 
frames to a dedicated IDE large-capacity 
hard disk for playback or recording to Beta- 
cam/MII video devices. NAB attendees also 
witnessed first-time demos of DPS's forth- 
coming Personal TBC tV time-base correc- 
tor cards ($999) for the Amiga. Complete 
with a GPI freeze trigger, S-Video (Y/C) in- 
puts and outputs, and component digital 
4:2:2 processing, the soon-to-be-released 
Personal TBC IV is backward compatible 
with the company's earlier TBC II and III 
cards. (RS #139). 

Well-Toasted Multimedia 

The Amiga's future looked bright in NAB's 
Multimedia exhibition area, as many third- 
party developers paraded their new and 
soon-to-be-released products, NewTek's 
Lightwave 3-D 3.0 demos dazzled onlook- 
ers with admirable consistency in the 
Toaster Pavilion. Digital Micronics, shar- 
ing some Pavilion floor space, showed its 
24-bit Vivid 24 display board (S2995) and 
previewed Digital Broadcaster ($2495), 
which offers 24-bit JPEG support, 4:1 to 
100:1 video compression, and the ability to 
digitize incoming signals from NTSC, PAL, 
and S-Video devices. DMI also previewed 
Digital MediaCaster ($1295), which 
promises real-time decoding at 352x240 
screen resolution and full-motion playback 
of 24-bit MPEG animations on the A2000, 
A3000, and A4000. An industry-wide short- 
age of logic chips has pushed the release 
dates of both Digital BroadCaster and 



OVERSCAN 

MediaCaster into early June. (RS# 140). 
Nearby, Digital Creations' Kitchen Sync 

(S1295) showed the benefits of having two 
TBCs on one card. The company of DCTV 
fame also previewed several Amiga prod- 
ucts, including SuperGen SX, an S-Video- 
and AGA-compatible external genlock that 
is roughly four months from completion. 
Digital Creations also premiered its Video 
Slot Box, an AT- and video-slot expansion 
box. I even saw the long-awaited paint pro- 
gram Brilliance; in beta stage (flakiness 
notwithstanding) it looked promising for 
owners of AGA machines. (RS# 141). 

More New Hardware, Software 

PreVue Technologies was on hand with its 
all-new DejaVue Toaster-control system. 
Saving all your current register settings, in- 
cluding wipe pattern and CG page, DejaVue 
is a must-have for serious Toaster users. 
PreVue's other product, the Amiga slot- 
based Toaster Timer, uses the blackburst of 
color bars as reference signals. (RS# 142). 

Nucleus Electronics had The Personal 
SFC 2.5 (S445) on display for the first time, 
along with its cuts-only video-editing sys- 
tem, The Personal Editor ($645). The Per- 
sonal SFC 2.5's claim to fame is its on-screen 
representation of popular frame- accurate 
VTRs, and a 25-pin to 9-pin serial-to-video 
port connection that leaves Amiga slots free. 
(RS# 143). 

AmiLink (RS# 144) was demonstrating 
its new serial-equipped AmiLink edit con- 
troller ($3599). Byrd'sEye Software showed 
off its upcoming Toaster FX package, 
which, working with GVP'S ImageFX, inte- 



grates that program's 24-bit paint tools into 
the Toaster via the Switcher screen. The 
program also offers FX Croutons, which 
bring embossing, oil painting, and other ef- 
fects to the Toaster's Switcher. (RS# 145). 

NAB attendees had a sneak peek at V7- 
sual Surface Technology's new Euclid VI 
($5900) and XII ($6700), two camera- 
equipped 3-D object digitizers (each rough- 
ly the size of an efficiency-apartment refrig- 
erator) designed for use with LightWave 
3-D. Place a flower vase or similarly-sized 
object in them, fire up a motor-driven ro- 
tating floor, and two cameras capture the 
objects' proportions and surfaces for Light- 
Wave processing. Although the digitizing 
process is time-consuming, the results 
looked mighty impressive. The VI model 
holds objects up to 8x6 in size, while the XII 
is for 18x12 items. (RS# 146). 

Eager to test the waters of other platforms, 
but with feet firmly planted in the Amiga mar- 
ket, ASDG was highly visible with two booths 
in the Multimedia area (RS# 147). It showed 
T-Rexx Professional (S249) for the first time. 
An upgrade to the original T-Rexx, which 
ASDG bought from KludgeCode, it gener- 
ates ARexx scripts for controlling the Toast- 
er. Scala Inc. previewed: its all-new Video 
Toaster EX ($395), which allows full Toast- 
er control from within Scala software. (RS# 
148). Finally, Real 3D 2 ($699), a high-speed 
AGA-upgrade to RealSoft's 3-D rendering, 
modeling, and animation program, wowed 
the crowds. (RS# 149). 

It was great to see the Amiga at NAB tak- 
ing its place alongside high-end worksta- 
tions. A new lease on life? — 77m Walsh 



New and Improved 

Vortex has upgraded the software for its PC/AT emulators. Golden Gate 386SX 
and Golden Gate 486SLC. It is now possible to use Amiga floppy-disk drives as PC 
drives under Windows in enhanced 386 mode. Other improvements include bet- 
ter keyboard emulation and multitasking support. You can now assign keys to an 
individual key code, and prioritize Golden Gate as one of many tasks. This upgrade 
is free; to get it send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Vortex at 3835 Rich- 
mond Ave., Suite 138, Stateri Island, NY 10312. (RS# 120). 

F-Basic 5.0 ($99.95, Delphi Noetic Systems) offers access to PAL and all screen 
modes of ECS and AGA. The upgraded language system also supports telecom- 
munications devices via the serial port The System Source Level DeBugger (SLDB) 
is bundled with F-Basic 5.0 for S159.95. The SLDB allows you to debug at the source 
level, one source line at a lime, or at the assembly level with similar functions. F- 
Basic 5.0 is AmigaDOS 1.3, 2.0, and 2. 1 compatible, and is available to current own- 
ers (SLDB 5.0 included) for $19.95.(RS # 121). 

Polyhedra 1.2 ($29.95, Technical Tools) now supports more 3-D modeling pro- 
grams, including Imagine (Impulse), LightWave (NewTek), and Caligari (Octree). 
The upgrade costs S7. (RS# 122). 

Quarterback Tools Deluxe (SI 25, Central Coast Software, a division of New 
Horizons) package of hard-disk utilities, now supports Workbench 2.0 and 3.0, as 
well as ARexx. The upgrade claims performance up to 20% faster than its prede- 
cessor and an improved interface. Complementary programs offer security and pro- 
tection features; Encryptor, for example, provides password protection for your doc- 
uments. Quarterback Tools Deluxe requires 1MB of memory and Kickstart 1.2 or 
later. (RS# 123). 



Sign Design 

The Sign Engine (S559.95, Parallel Mo- 
tion Graphics) offers unique applications for 
creative entrepreneurs and film-production 
studios. Designed for motion-picture pro- 
duction use, the multitasking Sign Engine 
lets you make professional, self-adhesive 
vinyl signs with an Amiga hooked to a vinyl- 
cutting plotter. The software is compatible 
with most popular drawing programs and 
vinyl-sign-cutting plotters including Gerber 
(with Parallel's Uni-Link card). With the ad- 
dition of an engraver (Sign Engine supports 
Roland CAMM-2 and New Hermes Van- 
guard models 7000 and 9000), you can en- 
grave plastics and metals to create plaques 
and badges. The Sign Engine comes with a 
dozen Type 1 sign fonts with more on the 
way from Parallel Graphics. The Sign Engine 
works with any Amiga (including A1 200 and 
A4000) but 5MB RAM (2MB chip RAM), an 
accelerator card, and a multisync monitor 
are recommended. You'll also need a 400- 
600 dpi black-and-white scanner and draw- 
ing software. (RS# 125). 



10 July 1993 




Close encounters nightly. 



For the cold reaches of space, there's an 
awful lot of chummy people here. 

That's because Federation II isn't one of 
those shoot-the-ship computer games. This is 
a universe full of people. Real people, online, 
working with other real people in real time: 
busily building their fortunes, planets.. .nay, 
empires. And they'd love to throw some work 
your way so you can do the same. 

Of course, there's a lot of bargaining, buying 
and bulling that goes into it. We're social creatures, 
after all. 

But if you're one of those special individuals 
who understands that creating an empire is ever 
so much more interesting than destroying aliens, 
maybe you can thrive in our space. 



There's only one way to find out. Sign up 
and meet us in Federation II — available 
only on GEnie*. 

Sign up now: 

1. Set communication software for 8 IN or 7 IE 
half duplex (local echo) at 300, 1200 or 2400 
baud. 2. Dial toll free: 1-800-638-8369. 
Immediately upon connection, enter HHH 
3. At the U#=prompt,enter XTX99231, SPACE 
then press RETURN 4. Have a major credit 
card ready. In the U.S., you may use your 
checking account number. (There is a $2 
monthly fee for all checking accounts.) For 
more information in the U.S. or Canada, 
call 1-800-638-9636. 




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V E R S C A \ 



Home Movies 

Movie Maker ($895, Interactive Video 
Systems) lets you create, edit, and play 
animations right off of the hard disk, 
you need not rely on tape as storage me- 
dia. With a familiar VCR-like control 
screen, you can cut and paste frames as 
if you were editing documents in a word 
processor. Frames are identified with 
SMITE time code so thev can svuc with 
the 16-bit stereo sound provided by the 
Perisound 16 audio card that is includ- 
ed with the system. Supporting 
Perisound 16 is the Atidio Editing Soft- 
ware, which samples and edits the sound 
files. Overall performance is contingent 
upon your system's frame rate, image 
resolution, CPU speed, and hard-disk 
transfer rate. (RS# 127). 



In Sync 

SMPTE Output (S249, SunRize Indus- 
tries) generates LTC (SMPTE) time code and 
sends it out through the Amiga's audio jack, 
letting you stripe time code onto audio and 
video tape. You can use it by itself or as an 
expansion module for SunRize's Studio 16 
audio-editing systems. SMPTE Output locks 
to the sync pulse of each frame of video 
when used with a genlock or NewTek's 
Toaster. The software can also sync audio 
and video decks together, slave VTRs to the 
Amiga, and synchronize audio decks using 
a sync box. SMPTE Output is NTSC and PAL 
compatible, works with any Amiga, and re- 
quires 1MB of RAM. (RS# 133). 



Oscar-Winning Team: Amiga, Toaster, and D2 

If you've been dreaming about the day when the Amiga and economical video 
tools could create an Academy Award winning film — your fantasy just came true. 
This year, The Empowerment Project won an Oscar for Best Documentary Film with 
Panama Deception. The group edited the film on 3/4" SP videotape, and color-cor- 
rected it through NewTek's Video Toaster on D2 composite digital tape using a 
unique capability called "pre-read." Then — believe it or not — 35mm film prints for 
theatrical distribution were made from the video master! 

Production Coordinator Clary Meyer (now with Sweet Pea Productions) secured 
US Department of Defense battle footage taped by the Pentagon during the Pana- 
ma invasion. Production folks combined this footage with video from Panaman- 
ian sources showing newly discovered grave sites of civilian casualties. Shot by 
anxious camera operators under difficult conditions, much of the footage was 
wildly out of color-balance; some footage came from multigeneraiion copies of 
8mm and VI IS sources. The Empowerment Project edited all this, together with 
interview segments taped in Panama and the US, onto 3/4" tape using tube cam- 
eras of varying quality. 

Co-producer David Kasper sent the edited program to Video-It Post, an innov- 
ative post-production facility in Culver City, California, which copied the full 3/4" 
SP tape over to D2 composite digital tape. The digital format stabilizes chroma crawl 
found in nondigital NTSC video and eliminates generation loss problems, lite 
facility then perfected the shot-by-shot color correction with pre-read, which uses 
the dynamic tracking heads to pull audio and video signals from the D2 master tape 
into a special-effects console. This they corrected, mixed with other violet) signals, 
fed back into the D2 editor, and re-recorded onto the same master tape — as if it 
were a signal from a B-source deck. 

Video-It (3 1 0/280-0505) discovered the potential power of pre-read for low-bud- 
get producers in 1989 and has since refined it into what they call D2-. The facility 
networks five Amigas on-line for multiple effects, and uses InnoVision's Broadcast 
Titler for text. The D2 pre-read signal is routed through a Video Toaster switcher, 
which maintains first-generation master-quality, good enough to make the final 
35mm film print for theatrical distribution. 

At $225 per hour this method is much less expensive than Dl processing — and it's 
much faster: The lull 90-minuic program was corrected in two hours. The decision 
to do the color correcting on D2 brought the quality level of the entire production up 
to feature film standards, and on Oscar night die producers of Panama Deception walked 
away with a golden statue — the realization of every home-video producer's dreams. 

— Patric Hedlund 




As the keeper ofAWi sole 
A 4000, I'm continuallv asked by 
co-workers to capture At lA-gen- 
erated screens. For this task, I 
use a I'D program residing in 
the Amiga area of every net- 
work — QuickGrab 1.1 by Steve 
Hincs. Operating as a commod- 
ity under OS 2.0 through 3.0, 
QuickGrab handles AGA screen 
Diodes quite nicely. 

And while we're on the sub- 
ject of 2.0+ commodities: Most 
nets harbor version 1 .80 of Hans- 
Peter Guenther's WCOMM. Com- 
plete with a clock and palette 
window, WCOMM lets you cycle 
screens via user-defined hotkeys. 



ON-LINE 

SCAN 



By Tim Walsh 



Another commodity. IhmlWin- 
dows 2.6 by Jorg Bublath, has 
won rave reviews thanks to its 
ability to create scrollable screens 
larger than the visible area of 
your monitor. 

To determine your Amiga's 
performance in a variety of 
areas, Amiga Intuition Based 
Benchmarks (AIBB) has seen re- 
cent revisions and now lingers at 
version 6.0. Another interesting 
program, Dashboard 1.4 is an 
OS 2.0+ utility by Marat 
Fayzullin that uses dashboard- 
like gauges to display CPU ac- 
tivity, as well as chip and fast 
RAM usage. 



For those so inclined. BIX re- 
cently freshened its entire lineup 
of Amiga software tools. Com- 
modore's Carolyn Scheppner 
has provided Mtmgwall 37.69 
and Munglist 37.10, which are 
compressed together in one file 
called munwall-lha. No stranger 
to programmers, and best de- 
scribed as a memory-allocation 
manager, Muugwall examines 
memory for software use. The 
program also collects informa- 
tion at die sian of each allocation 
for Munglist to output. The 
Mungwall and Munglist combo 
is unmatched for finding mem- 
ory, and creates a fairlv accurate 



list of memory locations and the 
programs that allocated them, 

Commodore's Enforcer is a 
nice complement to the Mung- 
wall/Munglisi duo. As of this 
writing, the Amiga area on BIX 
provides the most recent update 
(37.39) under the filename, en- 
forcer.lxh. Written by Michael 
Sinz and approximately 68K in 
length, il oilers 68040 support 
and such new options as dale 
and time stamping of "bits." 

More recent heavy hitlers in 
the BIX Amiga technical ring in- 
clude Douglas Keller's popular 
FindHit 37. 1 (filename lindhit I . 
lha). It reveals in C source code 
the line numbers where Enforcer 
and Mtmgwall hits occur. 

While retrieving any or all of 
the above, take a moment to 
download the small utility called 
Bndline.lzh, which finds the 
source lines for Enforcer and 
MimjAVall hits. 



1 2 July 1993 




Beyond fantasy. Beyond legends. 



If you've been looking for the mother of all 
fantasy role-playing games, we know where 
you can find it. 

Online, in GemStone IH™. 

This is no kill-the-dragon-thank-you-very- 
much computer game. And it goes far beyond 
any of the other so-called legends in the online 
arena. 

Here in GemStone III, you're joining real 
people, in real time for your online quests. 
Some of the best role players and game masters 
in the country — all meeting together in a 
vast and constantly evolving world, rich 
with fascinating characters and 
demanding adventures. It's a place you 
can play forever. 

GemStone III makes every other fantasy 
game history. And your friends are 
already here. So sign onto GEnie* today, 
and welcome home to GemStone III. 



GemStone TIE is a trademark ol Simulmmcs Corp. 

Shadow World is a registered trademark of Iran Crown Enterprises. Inc. 
GEnie is a registered trademark of General Klectric Company. 
Optional graphic front-end program available lor IBM PC only. 



Sign up now: 

Set communication software for 8 1 N or 7 1 E 
half duplex (local echo) at 300, 1 200 or 2400 
baud. Dial toll free: 1-800-638-8369. 
Immediately upon connection, enter HHH 

At the U#= prompt, enter XTX99230, QUESTS 
then press RETURN Have a major credit 
card ready. In the U.S., you may use your 
checking account number. (There is a $2 month- 
ly fee for all checking accounts.) For more 
information in the U.S. or Canada, 
call 1-800-638-9636. 



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Key In/out 
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V-Lab V3.1 

MacroSystems US, S499.95 

A2000/3000/4000 
Hard-drive installable software. 
Not copy protected. 
Accelerator compatible. 
AGA compatible. 



The V-Lab video digitizer card for the Ami- 
ga 2000, 3000, and -(000 grabs single fields 
or frames in I/G0 or l/'M) of a second, re- 
spectively, and grabs sequential fields or 
frames as well. Available in NTSC or PAL formats, 
composite or Y/C versions, the package also includes 
a disk and a 150-page manual. I tested the V-Lab 
NTSC composite version in an Amiga 4000/040 with 
2MB Chip and 4MB Fast RAM. 

Close Tolerances 

The V-Lab auto-conlig board fits any 100-pin Ami- 
ga slot and has no jumpers or DIP switches. Since it 
doesn't use the video slot or RGB port, it should 
work in conjunction with other video devices. The 
V-Lab's rear mounting plate would not seat fully 
because the edge of the card rested hard against the 
PC-slot connectors. Tightening the rear plate screw 
appeared to stress the card. 

The NTSC V-Lab has two RCA-style input con- 
nectors, solder-mounted with braces but not at- 
tached to the rear plate. Since RCA connectors are 
not as rugged as BNCs, I urge caution when you're 
forcing overly tight RCA plugs into the board. 

The V-Lab V3.1 software installed easily with the 
provided program that controls all setups via mentis 
and windows. MacroSystems has included YUVN 
and VLAB loaders for ADPro users. The YUVN 
loader reads V-Lab's image format, and AD Pro's 
Universal loader defaults to this YUVN loader when 
it recognizes the format. The VLAB loader provides 
basic control ofV-Lab's Eramegrabbing functions 
from within ADPro. 

ARexx fans will delight in Finding more than 125 
ARexx commands included with the package. Many 
provide more accurate control than V-Lab's menus, 



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Requires Amiga DOS 2.0 or greater (Kickstart 
V37.175 and Workbench V37.67 or above). 

Recommended minimum system: 1MB Chip 
RAM, 2MB Fast RAM and 50MB hard drive. 

Installation: Easy, but exercise care. 

with some procedures available only through 
ARexx. Several complete ARexx scripts are includ- 
ed, as well as DOS scripts to control V-Lab from a 
Shell. You can easily access these ARexx and macro 
scripts from a V-Lab menu. 

Positive Signals 

The manual is well organized, and comprehensively 
covers each menu function and its ARexx equiva- 
lent. A separate section covers all ARexx commands 
a second time, along with macro commands. The 
manual includes some basic information on video 
signals and terminology and has quickstart and 
troubleshooting sections. 

V-Lab's Monitor window displays incoming lull- 
option video in grayscale on your screen, like a pie- 
ture-in-picture display. The software takes full ad- 
vantage of AmigaDOS 2.0-3.0 and can open on the 
Workbench or on a public screen, or can open its 
own screen. Processing controls provide for lumi- 
nance, contrast, chroma and gamma video signal, 
as well as red, green, and blue color adjustments. All 
adjustments affect the YUVN image in memory and 
do not process the incoming video signal. 

Y-Lab grabs single images in MacroSystem's YUVN 
format, but its sequential images are saved in a pro- 
prietary format that must be converted with V-Lab. 
Two handy V-Lab macros can semi-automate the con- 
version process, but sequenced images must then be 
assembled into your favorite animation format to play 
as an animation. You can export images in any Ami- 
ga format, including AGA modes. 24-bil II. BM 
(IFF24), and something called 24-bit Deep, ion can 
also send images to Harlequin and Retina graphics 
display boards directly from the V-Lab program. 

Basic Instinct 

Like many computed sts, I prefer to read the manu- 
al last. I was concerned that the filter settings and tub- 
er V-Lab software options would be difficult to adjust, 



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hm thai was not. die case. Mv lirsi attempts 
were met with instam success, although I 
did manage to lock up the machine on 

one occasion by accessing a file requester 
and then trying to exit V-Lab. Satisfied 
with the program's intuitive qualities, I 
read the manual to soak up the finer 
[joints of operation, function by function. 

My two big questions concerned die 
image quality that V-Lab provides and 
the speed at which it can make sequen- 
tial framegrabs. I began the quality tests 
by connecting both an older, profession- 
al three-tube camera and a JVC 5600 
YHS deck to Y-Lab's composite inputs. 
MacroSystems claims that V-Lab's VSC 
(vertical sync correction) option elimi- 
nates the need for a TBC. when grabbing 
from videotape. Skeptical of this, I did 
my initial tests both with and without a 
TBC. I could detect no difference either 
way, so all further testing was done with- 
out the TBC. 

First I grabbed camera stills of a color- 
ful product package, intentionally choos- 
ing a rich red-and-blue image thai should 
cause problems for composite video. 1 
tried various bandwidth-filter and noise- 
filter settings, viewing each image in 24- 
bit RGB on a Firecracker24 display card 
to see the filters' effects. There was a visi- 
ble difference, but 1 preferred all filtering 
off, which gives images a softer, less harsh 
appearance. Filtering would be useful for 
sharpening details and edges when grabbing logos, 
text, or drawings. 

I grabbed the same camera image with my Video 
Toaster, saving it in IFF24 format (not Framestore) 
for side-by-side comparison on the Firecracker with 
the V-Lab framegrab with no filtering, also saved 
in 1FF24. Although the Toaster image was slightly 
sharper and had a Utile more contrast and color 
saturation, V-Lab performed admirably. All in all, 
I was pleased wiih the comparative qualitv of the 
V-Lab image. 

Next, 1 grabbed some frames and fields from 
VHS videotape of a clown. V-Lab did not require a 
TBC, but the Toaster did. The V-Lab and Toaster 
clown images compared very well as you can see by 
the side-by-side comparison of the iwo images in 




the accompanying figure. Again, contrast and sat- 
uration were the more obvious differences. V-Lib's 
full-frame grab with motion combines two differing 
interlaced fields that cause dicker, apparent graph- 
ically in the clown enlargement. 

V-Lab's Deinterlace function processes the two 
fields to eliminate flicker. It avoids motion flicker 
by grabbing one field instead of a whole frame, bin 
this uses only half the screen lines. Grabbing in 
720x482 si/.e gives an image that's just 241 pixels 
high. You must then rescale the image for hi-res in- 
terlaced video to fill the screen. ADPro comes in 
very handy here, as V-Lab has no function for this. 

Satisfied with the quality ol V-Lib's single frames, 
I tried sequential framegrabbing, which turned out 
to be easy. You simply set the frame count, image 



Images captured 
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(above) compare 
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with Toaster 
IFF24 images 
(below). 



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size, any desired delay between grabs, 
and click Stan. I hoped that an '040 
processor and 32-bit memory could ob- 
tain several consecutive color frames in 
full video size, but I bad to settle for less. 
Once I understood the process, I real- 
ized thai V- Lab's RAM couldn't hold that 
much. Each frame is grabbed and saved 
with consecutive numbers in Amiga 
RAM or in whatever other storage device 
you choose. No doubt V-Lab's 16-bit 
bus Limits its performance on the A3000 
and A4000. 
Sequencing color fields (not frames) 



in 180x120 quarter-screen, lo-res non- 
interlaced and saving to 32-bit RAM 
yielded a rate of 3.8 frames per second, 
or about every eighth frame of video. 
The same resolution in grayscale yield- 
ed 7.3 frames per second, or about every 
fourth frame, which is twice the rate of 
color sequencing. To get anything ap- 
proaching a moderate strobe effect, von 
must resort to these small lo-res images. 
When displayed in normal video format 
{7004x480 pixels), the images are 1/8 of 
screen size. Such displays might make 
an interesting animated multimedia in- 




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set window. Reseating these tiny frames 
to full video screen size provided a "spe- 
cial effect" mosaic animation. 

Keep in mind thai these frame rales 
were attainted with a 25 MHz 68040 
processor, with frames saved to 32-bit 
RAM. Slower CPUs, larger image sizes, or 
saving frames to a bard drive can easily 
drop the rate to several seconds per frame 
instead o! several frames per second. 

One very practical application for this 
sequencing is in automated time-lapse 
video. You could easily produce full- 
frame color sequences such as a flower 
opening, a sunrise, clouds blowing by, 
or cell growth under a microscope with 
no human intervention. You can set the 
number of framegrabs up to 9999, and 
the delay between frames in one-second 
intervals up to two hours and 46 min- 
utes. Creating intermediate frames with 
some morphing software could prove in- 
teresting. 

Other Things to Consider 

V-Lab's NTSC images are limited to 
720x525 pixels. The height of 525 in- 
cludes lines above the physical screen 
that you normally don'l see, providing a 
practical height of 482. Though 1 would 
prefer 736 to 768 pixels for video, Ami- 
ga hobbyists should find the 720 width 
sufficient. Rescaling with 2Tbil image- 
processing software is also an option. 

V-Lab's image quality is much better 
than standard DCTV format and a little 
better than DCTV saved in 24-bit, but 
not quite as good as Video Toaster 
frame-stores. All these devices and for- 
mats use compression lo reduce data size 
for increased image-transfer speed. In 
the final analysis, you can detect little or 
no difference between Toaster frame- 
stores and V-Lab using consumer and 
prosumer video cameras or VCRs. V-Lab 
is even acceptable for many levels of pro- 
fessional use. 

When weighing the pros and cons of 
V-Lab against other video f'ramegrab- 
bers, don't overlook the hidden cost of a 
TBC. TBC cards start ai about SI 000, 
which is double the cosl of V-Lab itself. 
Unlike other real-time framegrabbers 
capable of 24-bit or near-24-bit quality, 
V-Lab doesn't need a TBC when grab- 
bing from videotape. This certainly 
means big savings for the video hobby- 
ist who cannot jttsiilv bttving a TBC. The 
good quality and relative low price ofV- 
Lab make it a worthy contender Tor your 
Amiga video hardware dollar. 

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VistaPro 3.0 

Virtual Reality Laboratories, 399.95 

Upgrade from VistaPro 2.0: S35: upgrade from Vista or VistaPro: $50 

All Amigas models. 
Workbench 2.0 required. 
Hard-drive installable. 
Not copy protected. 
Accelerator compatible. 



Minimum system: 
1MB RAM. 

Recommended system: 
Hard disk, accelerator, 
AGA or 24-bit display card. 



Imagine a program that shows by ex- 
ample why you bought an Amiga. Now 
visualize a new and improved version of 



that program, and you have Virtual Re- 
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VistaPro 3.0 is, of course, a landscape 




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Get the fastest and most cost effective 68030 accelerator for your Amiga 1200. The 
M1 230 XA comes standard with 50MHz processor and MMU. Run your Amiga 1 200 at 
twice the speed of an A3000 or A4000/30! Install a 68882 math chip running at 50MHz 
and blaze your way through raytraces and morphs or any heavy-duty floating point task. 
The XA uses an industry standard, 72-pin, 32-bit wide SIMM Memory Module and 
supports a huge 1 28 megabyte memory capability- the largest FastRAM space available 
for the A1 200! It can use the same commonly available SIMM as the Amiga 4000! Don't 
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slow "credit card" memory. Available SIMM's range from 1 to 1 28 megabytes; speeds as 
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FastRAM. Standard on the MBX 1200z is a Motorola 68881 clocked at motherboard 
speeds (1 4.3MHz). Speeds up math-intensive operations by as much as 55 times (AIBB 
v5.0 Savage benchmark). 25MHzor50MHz 68882'soptional. Add a 72-pin SIMM to MBX 
1200z and average system performance will increase to 193% of a standard A1200 (or 
to 688% of a standard A500!). SIMM sizes supported; 1 ,2,4, or 8 megabytes. SIMM type 
is identical to that used in the Amiga 4000. Don't slow down your system with sluggish, 
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modeler. Using commercially available 
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Tiles, 
fractal seeds within Vista, or IKK files 
containing elevation data in the form of 
color contours, Vista can render both 
real and imaginary scenes of limitless 
variety. It arrives with a disk full of 
DEMs thai include such famous loca- 
tions as the Alps, the Grand Canyon, 
Mount Fuji, and a view from mv own 
back window — Pike's Peak. Best of all, 
anv additional data disks are available 
from VRL. 

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Despite the truly dizzying array of but- 
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The landscape above was created with 
VistaPro 3.0 

the landscape (much like any 3-D mod- 
eler) and begin so render. Later, you can 
change the snow line or sea level, add 
trees (pine, palm, oak) or cactus, and 
even change the color palette for alien- 
looking landscapes. 

You can add lakes, rivers, and oceans 
(fractal waves are optional). Looking 
up. VistaPro lets you add clouds or stars 
to the roof of your creation. Stars auto- 
matically create a night view, complete 
with a subtle halo of light along the 
horizon. Daytime scenes can include 
beautifully wispy fractal clouds that 
have to be viewed in 24-bit or AGA to 
be truly appreciated. You can even add 
roads and buildings, though they are 
very simple objects, hardly doing jus- 
lice to the beauty of the surrounding 
landscape. 

Depending on the speed of your Ami- 
ga, rendering a VistaPro image can take 
quite a lot of time — even hours. Luckily, 



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Vista Pro allows you to view very coarse 
versions of the landscape as quick 
"proofs." On an Amiga 4000/040, these 
chubby-pixeled images often lake well 
tinder a minute to process. Once yon 
know your settings are right, you can 
vary the resolution and level of detail, 
and even add Gouratid shading. 
VistaPro lets you optimize the render- 
ing for speed or detail, placing empha- 
sis on realism or artistry. 

Who could resist a flight through a 
YistaPro-generated Grand Canyon in 
high-resolution. HAM-8 color mode? 



REV! E W S 

The good news is that VistaPro makes 
such animations possible; the bad news 
is thai without the optional MakePath 
program, you're forced to use VistaPro's 
ARexx script language. That's not to say 
that the script language is bad; it isn't. 
It's just that I'd rather navigate above 
tough terrain with a mouse than with the 
keyboard. 

How about making your own land- 
scape from scratch? Although you can 
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VistaPro is still not without its quirks. 
While VistaPro's button-laden graphic 
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standard Workbench 2.0 screenmode re- 
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casionally select a display mode that 
VistaPro doesn't like. When that hap- 
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL LIQUID effects have washed over broadcast commercial work 
like a tsunami. We Amiga users have many tools to help us catch the wave: NewTek's 
LighlWave, Impulse's Imagine, Adspec's Aladdin 4D, and other 3-D packages include 
wave functions for some very professional presentations. And with a little creativity, 
you can hang ten even if your software doesn't provide such built-in functions. 

How can you make a splash without getting all wet? I'll show you, using four 
examples. While I illustrate the effects using particular programs, in most cases 
you can apply them using the tools of your choice. (To locate the vendors of prod- 
ucts mentioned in this article, see the Manufacturers/Distributors' list on p. 102. 

A Bumpy Road to Water 

This first project, for which I used Real 3D ($699, Realsoft), lets you create perfect 
waves without a built-in function. The result is realistic (as you can see here in the 
opening illustration), and Real 3D's antialiased output is very professional. You can 
use the technique with any rendering package that has bump-mapping capabilities; 
Will Vinton's Playmation (Will Vinton) is one example of such a program. 

Bump mapping is an effect in which an object's surface is shaded according to 
the image applied to it. Generally, the dark areas appear as valleys and lighter ar- 
eas appear as peaks. Real 3D's bump-mapping feature uses red shades in the ap- 
plied image to calculate altitudes; other packages use different color schemes. 

The first step in this process involves creating a bump map in a paint package such 
as DeluxePaint 4 ($179, Electronic Arts). By selecting a lores screen, you can de- 
fine a red range of 30 colors. Simply spread color 2 (Red = 2, Green = 0, Blue = 0) 
to color 15 (Red = 15, Green = 0, Blue = 0). Then spread color 15 to color 31 (Red 
= 1, Green = 0, Blue = 0). Using the palette-range feature, make the range start at 
color 2 and end with color 32. If your paint software allows, create a square filled with 
a random dithering of the red range. (Using random dithering is the trick to produc- 
ing realistic waves, which differ immensely from the mathematically defined built-in 
effects.) The brush need not be larger than 100x100 pixels to produce smooth effects. 

One bump map is fine for still productions, but an animation requires at least 30. 
You should make a separate drawer in your bump-map directory to keep these se- 
quences in order. Remember that creating sequences in multiples of 30 makes it eas- 
ier to convert an animation to videotape, if that is your aim. Save the first brush as 
Bumpmap.O so that your 3-D software will know it is part of a sequence. Carefully ro- 
tate the colors in the palette range plus or minus one (give color 3 the value of color 
2, color 4 the value of color 3, and so on) to create wave motion for your animation. 
Save these subsequent brushes with the appropriate number suffix (such as Image. 0, 



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I mage. 1, Image.2), so that you end up with 30 brush- 
es numbered zero to 29. 

Now boot up your 3-D program. Within Real 3D, se- 
lect Materials Create from the menu and rename the 
material Waves. Because you have 30 images to se- 
quence, type 30 into the Texture Index gadget. Adjust 
the materials' attributes as you wish, keeping the bump 
height at least at ihe default of 15. Select Image. and 
define it as a bump map, then adjust the smoothing 
and gradient settings to your preference. Click OK, 
and assign the material to a fiat plane. By coloring the 
plane blue and zooming in close, you can get a good, 
wave-like effect. If you want to reflect objects in the water, you 
may need a lighter color than dark blue for die plane; Real 
3D requires surfaces to be quite light for good reflections. 

When test-rendering the wave, use low resolution 
and select Lampless mode. Need an animation longer 
than 30 frames? No problem — Real 3D will just qcle 
through the sequence when it reaches the end. 

I viewed this animation in real time using DCTV 
(Digital Creations). The wave looked so good I couldn't 
wait to re-render the frames to S-VHS tape via a 24-bit 
display card. After I did, I found that the DCTV' view 
looked better. With the extra resolution, the taped ver- 
sion looked too clean — and no longer real. You can eas- 
ily correct for hyperrealism with fog effects, blurring, 
and so on, but isn't it nice to know you don't always need 
the most expensive equipment to get the best results? 

Real 3D 2.0, which should be released by the time 
you read this, promises built-in wave functions. But 
even with programs providing these capabilities, I 
found this bump-map technique to be superior in sev- 
eral instances, producing original and life-like effects. 

Turning Up the Heat 

Waves are also easy to create with Aladdin's rich envi- 
ronment of texture procedural mapping. With both 
Real 3D 2 and Aladdin 4D ($499, Adspec) offering un- 
limited mapping per object, .some out-of-this-world ef- 
fects are possible. You could start with a lake full of 
waves, for instance, and make it freeze and then thaw 
during an animation. The creativity afforded is limit- 
less — and creativity means "wave effects" need not be 
limited to liquids. After all, at high enough tempera- 
lures, liquid becomes gas. 

Aladdin 4D is the first Amiga package to provide for 
gaseous 3-D effects with unlimited, sequential textures. 
I took advantage of this in a recent animation. I had a 
detailed spaceship ready to do battle when I realized 

the craft had 



transition from a side panel of the ship turning into a 
radial wave took care of the problem. Yes, I used the 
pebble- dropped-into-the-pail effect, which looked 
100% mathematical — but that's what I wanted. I actu- 
ally reversed the waves to show a build-up to the cen- 
ter of the panel, from which a deadly weapon was re- 
leased. 

I had created the spaceship within Aladdin's editor. 
Once I'd set the scene and camera, I went to work as- 
signing textures to the polygons. The procedural tex- 
unes with a mixture of IFF wraps looked good on the 
hull of die ship, but I decided to use a gray-scale "tin 
plate" image over the majority of panels. Using Deluxe- 
Faint, I created a gray-scale panel with red marking and 
coding to differentiate it from the other panels. Gray- 
scale images, mixed with light log and redirected light- 
ing, allow for great space scenes. 

To work on the firing panel, I selected the panel 
polygon by itself. Choosing Textures from the Polygon 
Control menu, 1 loaded the panel's exit frame a few 
frames before I wanted the wave effect to start. Because 
I planned to swing the camera in fairly close, I chose 
the Antial option to prevent the bitmap from appear- 
ing pixelized. The panel looked realistic, hut I want- 
ed more depth. The panel's original IFF image served 
just as well as a bump map for depth realism. Starling 
at frame 355, I added a wave to the polygon for tran- 
sition. I altered the wave's timing so it required a full 
four seconds { 1 20 frames) to travel from the outside to 
the inside (this is easily done by adjusting the frames 
count for start and exit). 

Using Aladdin's Sweep (lathe) function, I created a 
teardrop shape, which I dressed up to look like a fire- 
ball by assigning it several layers of sequenced textures 
and a gas coating. I then plotted a path for the fireball 
to follow, from inside the space craft to the outside, 
where, with some experimenting, it intersected the 
pinnacle of the wave. 

Molten Metal 

While Octree's Caligari24 (S399) lacks many ef- 
fects of other 3-D packages, its real-time response, 
deformation modeling, and Fine antialiasing allow 
it to create great liquid effects. 




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A recent project required a simple animation of the 
client's logo in chrome. Wanting to avoid another bor- 
ing "logo spin job," I asked if I could try a different ap- 
proach. My idea was for the logo to emerge from a 
bubbling pool of mollen metal. The customer agreed, 
so I set out to experiment. Caligari24 has no bump- 
mapping facilities, but its Free Form Deformation 
functions, which produce smooth objects via point edit- 
ing, allowed easy creation of bubbling metal. I just bad 
to find awav to incorporate the wave. 

I'd had AsimWare's CD-based 24-bit textures collec- 
tion for about a week and couldn't wait to apply one of 
its tiled images in a 3-D scene. Caligari's high-quality 
antialiasing negates the need for hi-res image wraps, 
though I kepi the textures at their original sizes. With 
one, I was able to simulate a smooth, glossy floor; an- 
other gave the walls a modern brick design. 

Because Caligari24 is so forgiving with input quali- 
ty, you can get amazing results by importing DCTV- 
digitized or DPaint-generated images. In DPaint, Icre- 
ated a few rounded puddles. I extruded and beveled these 
using Pixel 3D ($249.95, Axiom Software); a router bit gave 
a smooth curve. Also using Pixel 3D, 1 beveled and exnuded 
a few bitmapped fonts for the logo. 

I then entered the render module to assign attrib- 
utes to the logo, puddles, and walls. I assigned a 
chrome attribute to the logo and puddles, and made 
the logo a little darker. The image maps from the CD 
were large enough to cover the whole wall without pix- 
elation, so tiling was not needed. With the scene ready 
to go, it was time to plan the animation. 

I intended the camera to zoom in on the puddle 
(which is actually made up of several objects), and show 
the logo slowly rising up, while the puddle resizes to 
suggest that molten material is being drawn from it. 1 
set up the keyframes, resizing the component-puddle 
objects at different times. (This was tedious because the 
puddles not only had to intersect cleanly, but also lose 
depth.) As the last letter of the logo emerged from the 
molten liquid, the puddle disappeared altogether. 

While the test animation looked fine, I decided I 
would prefer new environment maps for the logo. 
Then, to add the bubbling wave effect, I created a few 
flat planes that roughly matched the puddles' shapes. 
Editing these objects with the deformation tools, I pro- 
duced smooth waves in the planes. I generated a few 
more bump planes and returned to the scene creation. 
The hardest part would be animating the bumped 
planes properly. With Caligari24's new time bars and 
real-time feedback, I was able to assign and reassign 
the bumps' up-and-down motion and adjust it accord- 
ing to the puddles' depth fluctuations. I also synced the 
bumps to produce a smooth, rolling effect. Finally, I 




created another environment map for the puddles and 
plane bumps to get the best chrome look possible. 

The Fast Lane 

Imagine ($495, Impulse) users can easily apply the 
above techniques to create liquid effects. But Imagine 
also works gracefully with such 2-D programs as Im- 
agemaster (SI 99.95, Black Belt Systems), ImageFX 
($249.95, GVP), or Art Department Professional 
($299, ASDG), which all produce 3-D-like waves and 
ripples. Though the 2-D software approach is not right 
for even' case, it is worth considering, as these pro- 
grams can usually do the job faster than 3-D software. 

A sample animation can illustrate: A framed picture 
spins onto the screen. It stops, the picture changes to 
another image via a ripple effect, and then spins off the 
screen. This animation requires sequences of images 
for image wrapping. Although you could provide a 
wave effect for the images with Imagine, I decided to 
leave that job for Imagemaster. Because I wanted the 
animation to last 10 seconds (300 frames), I needed 
about 100 frames of wave distortion and 20 frames of 
morphing (also done within Imagemaster). 

I started by generating the first and final 60 frames 
of wave distortion. After 60 frames of wave distortion, 
the images look fairly obscure. So a morph between 
these two segments provides a smooth transition. By 
saving the frames with sequential names 
(Frameln.001, Morph.001, FrameOut.001), the task 
becomes easier to define within Imagine. Using Imag- 
ined Action editor you can assign the paths appro- 
priately with a slight ease in and out. 

In addition to these programs, I found a supply of 
utilities capable of working with primary 3-D applica- 
tions to produce Quid effects. Wave Writer (S129.95, 
Unili Graphics), Morphus (SI 19.95, Impulse), and 
Icoons (freely distributable, by Hefge Rasmussen) let 
you create or modify waves for LightWave, Imagine, 
and Will Vinton's Playmation, respectively. 

While imminent updates to LightWave, Real 3D, 
Playmation, Caligari, and other programs promise to 
rock the boat in terms of Amiga wave effects, don't wait 
to dive in. There are plenty of effects in the sea! ■ 

toward Piice is a Canadian-based freelance computer artut special- 
izing in 3-D effects. You can reach him on GABB II (Graphic 
Amiga Bulletin 
Board.) at 416/ 
547-l690orcjo 
AmigaWorld 
FdiioriaiSOHm 
St., Petabomugli, 
NH 03-158. 




A combination of 2-D and 3-D programs made quick 
work of waves within Imagine. 



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More In Depth 

~w~ -jr ~y e can't get enough of beau- 
I /I / tiful, Amiga-generated art. 
W It's not only fun to look at, 
it's inspirational as well. 

Our focus on 3-D graphics this issue 
gives us a great excuse to celebrate the 
achievements of innovative artists. Our 
art department culled this exciting col- 
lection from the many responses received 
from our calls for Amiga art. Thanks to 
all who have participated; toe hope you 
will continue to submit your works. We 
also hope to feature similar displays in 
the future. Enjoy! 





We think that LORENZO 
COLLORETA deserves a hand 
for his Drawing Hands, a HAM- 
format image created using 
Imagine 2.0 and DeluxePaint 4 
(Electronic Arts). Lorenzo, a 
biology student at the University 
of Florence in Italy, fell in love 
with ray tracing four years ago 
when he began with Sculpt 3D 
(Centaur). Lorenzo hopes to 
create future works in HAM-8 
or 24-bit; like many of us, he's 
saving for an A4000. 



All alone in a room with only his A2000, a few pieces of Amiga software and 
hardware, and plenty of time, Belgian artist MICHEL RIGO creates 3-D worlds, 
such as the one depicted here in Salte. Michel created all of Salle's objects within 
Impulse's Imagine 2.0; the stone textures came from Computer Imagery's Map 
Master collection. The two framed pictures on the walls are 2-1) imports: the 
colorful one at left is a DeluxePaint original, while the still life is something he 
digitized using the Austrian 24-bit digitizer. VD200I. 



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STEPHEN WOOD of Ales, 
France, started in 3-D imaging on 
a Macintosh. There, he mastered 
the creation of photorealistic 
.scenes involving metals and 
reflective surfaces. After joining 
the Amiga ranks about a year and a 
half ago, Stephen was inspired by 
the work, of Anti-Gravity Workshop, 
(AGW co-founder Tim Wilson's 
rendering won AmigaWorld's 1 992 
Special Issue a Gold award Trom 
Magazine and Bookseller.) Stephen's 
beautiful Magic Mirror Reflexion, 
created using Imagine 2.0, took 
14 hours to render on a 68040- 
based A3000. 





STEVE GALE'S artwork 

could make an Amiga evangelist 
oiu of anybody. In fact, as Art 
Director for a producer of 
computer-based product demos 
in New Jersey, Steve converted 
his company's traditional 2-D 
approach lo include 3-D ray- 
traced imagery. His inspirational 
New Church sets the 3-D 
building (rendered in Imagine) 
against a 2-D background (which 
he processed from a Targa file 
using ASDG's Art Department). 



Self-taught artist ANTHONY C. 
GROS enjoys the realism thai 
3-D allows. Indeed, his Oasis 
seems so cool and inviting you 
almost want to step right in! 
Perhaps Anthony, a Houston 
resident, was looking for a way 
to beat the Texas heat when he 
decided to render this scene with 
Imagine. He did some touch-tips 
using the Firecracker s Light24 
(Impulse) and Art Department 
Professional, 




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photograph courtesy oktiik iu.ti mann archive 





You don't believe it? Well, try these simple techniques 

for creating Amiga images and animations in 

"stereo pairs, " and you'll open up some 

fascinating opportunities for 3-D stereo mewing. 



TO MANY PEOPLE, the idea of viewing 3- 
D images conjures up scenes of a 1 950s the- 
atre (or doorstep . . . ) and people wearing 
cardboard glasses with red and blue cello- 
phane lenses. In fact, 3-D stereo imaging takes many 
forms, and is a serious and exciting tool lor science and 
art. Whether you're a professional Amiga artist, an am- 
ateur animator, or an enthusiastic computer user 
searching for a little diversion — creating stereo graph- 
ics on your computer can lie a rewarding experience. 
While you won't need a background in trigonom- 
etry or neuro-optics to gel underway, to fully appre- 
ciate stereo imaging on your computer, you should 
understand a few basic principles. Each of our eyes 
projects a slightly different view of the world onto 
our retinas. Our brain transforms this information 
into a stereoscopic image that conveys meaning about 
the dimension and spatial relationships of objects 
around us. 

For more than 1 50 years scientists, artists, and pho- 
tographers have experimented with ways to portray 
stereoscopic images that mimic this dramatic natural 
phenomenon. As an Amiga artist, you have at your 
disposal some of the most exciting equipment ever 
available for exploring this field. 

The stereo effect depends on two precisely relat- 
ed images. You can create such a pair by horizon- 
tally shifting the point of view between two images. 
In viewing this pair, if your left eye sees only the left 
image and your right eye only the right image, a 
stereo effect is possible. A few basic principles ap- 
ply to both photography and computer graphics: 



• The two images should originate on the same hor- 
izontal plane with no vertical misalignment. In 
photography, this is often accomplished by mov- 
ing the camera horizontally on a level fixed slide. 

• As a rule of thumb, the separation of the two 
points of view should be about 1/30 the distance 
to the nearest object in die image. 

• The most effective alignment of the two images 
for viewing is to superimpose the nearest objects 
in both images. The entire stereo view then seems 
to lie beyond the image plane or the computer 
screen. 

Eye For Detail 

On the computer, one of the most exciting ways to ex- 
periment with stereo graphics and animation is with 
special goggles equipped with liquid-ctystal display 
shutters. The X-Specs 3D stereoscopic glasses 
(S149.95) produced by Haitex Resources plug into the 
second mouse port on the Amiga and synchronize with 
the interlaced display. This display is updated every 
sixtieth of a second. On every odd sixtieth, the left-eye 
view is displayed to every odd scan line. At that instant, 
the left shutter of the glasses clears while the right 
shutter darkens. On every even sixtieth the reverse 
happens, displaying an image to the right eye. These 
views switch so fast that the brain combines the infor- 
mation into one stereo image. Typically, you must dis- 
able any de-interlacer to view stereo with LCD glasses. 
You create left and right eye views as separate files, 
then use the X-Specs software to combine and view i 



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them in stereo. For example, running the X-Specs 
M3D program allows yoti to load a left and rigln pic- 
ture, view them as a stereo image, adjust left/right sep- 
aration, and save a single combined stereo view. D3D 
is an included display program for these stereo views. 
Figure 1 shows the format of a DSD stereo file. Left 
and right images are stacked in a single interlaced pic- 
ture that is decoded for display. Strangely, with Cen- 
taur's OpalVision board installed in an A3000, M3D 
and D31) allow stereo display in the de-interlaced 
mode. This gives a remarkably brilliant display, but has 
a lot of us scratching our heads. It seems that it 
shouldn't work. 




Figure 1. The "over-under" format of an X-Specs D3D stereo Image. 
Left and right views are stacked in a single interlaced image. The 
views were created in Scenery Animator. 




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Figure 2. The Vista Pro 3.0 interface can be used for creating stereo 
views. 



Figure 1 is a random fractal landscape from Scenery 
Animator (S99.95, Natural Graphics). To create a sim- 
ilar stereo landscape, point the camera straight North 
on the Map screen to generate the lefl-cvc view and 
save it as "Landscape-L." Enter a new East setting on 
the Map panel that moves the camera 20 units to the 
right of the previous setting. Don't change the alti- 
tude, or you will violate the vertical displacement rule 
mentioned previously. Generate this right-eye view 
and save it as "Landscape-R." 

Unfortunately, it is very difficult to create a good 
stereo pair in Scenery Animator in any orientation oth- 
er than straight North-South or East-West. At other 
map angles, there is no easy way to keep a constant dis- 
tance between camera and target. Run M3D to load, 
adjust, and view your stereo landscape. Remember thai 
the most effective orientation of the two images is usu- 
ally to adjust them so that the nearest objects are su- 
perimposed. The landscape then lies beyond the plane 
of the screen. The amount of new information revealed 
in the 3-D view may startle you. 

Bird's Eye View 

Landscape-generation software is a great way to in- 
troduce yourself to this Field. Producing a good stereo 
pair is easy and the added dimension is powerful. 
VistaPro 3.0 (S99.95 Virtual Reality Laboratories) has 
direct support for X-Specs. Pressing l he Stereo button 
on the main screen brings up the interface shown in 
Figure 2. This allows you to enter displacement values 
for the camera as well as the image pair thai will be 
merged. The real power in this interface is that it al- 
lows you to create an accurate stereo pair from any 
map angle. You can view a pair of generated images 
front VistaPro using the Merge button. 

VistaPro does not save the combined views as a 
stereo image, nor does it directly support stereo ani- 
mation. On the Vista bulletin board, however, (805/ 
781-2257) is a free program called Smash that works 
with MakeAnim to merge a list of stereo pairs from a 
pair of Vista animation scripts. A little patient work 
could vield an impressive flight through a stereo land- 
scape. Bv the way, VistaPro 3.0 has powerful new fea- 
tures that break up near-polygons into very realistic 
texture. Truly superb control of the landscape is pos- 
sible. (For a complete review of the 3.0 upgrade, see 
p. 20 in this issue.) 

Any version of Vista or VistaPro can be used to 
create a stereo pair. The easiest method is to keep 
the target locked and move the camera a little be- 
iween views. Before moving the camera, lock the Z 
button and note the dR value, which is the distance 
from the camera to the target. Move the camera, 
then re-enter the previous dR value. 

Remember to lock the palette before generating 
the second image. Beware of having a chunk of land- 
scape right in front of the camera or you may vio- 
late the 1:30 guideline for camera separation. Since 
the target remains stationary in this method, distant 
objects superimpose and near objects are displaced. 
For best viewing, the image displacement should be 
adjusted to superimpose the nearest features. Fail- 
ing to do this forces the foreground out of the screen 
plane, which seems more difficult for the brain to re- 
solve. These are merely rules of thumb; always ex- 
periment to find what works best. 



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Picture This 

For X-Specs viewing. I find it best to manually merge 
two stereo images and save them as a single interlaced 
picture. Figure 3 shows such a stereo view of Candor 
Chasma on Mars. For future reference, lei's call this the 
"interleaved" method. The advantage to this technique 
is that you can work in the Amiga's highest resolu- 
tions, including 2-1-bit color, even creating standard 
animation files you can play from any utility. 

To try this technique, save a stereo pairofhi-res 16- 
color images in VistaPro or Scenery Animator. In 
Deluxel'aint (Electronic Arts), open a screen to match 
the resolution of your landscapes. Clear the screen to 
pure white and fill every other line with a horizontal 
single-pixel line of pure black. The finished screen 
should alternate white and black single-pixel lines. In 
the Stencil requester, lock the black, click Make Sten- 
cil, and save it as a stencil named "Stencil-Left." Next, 
Reverse the stencil and save it as "Stencil-Right." These 
can be used again and again in creating interleaved 
stereo pictures and animations. 

Now load die left landscape image, then load die left 
stencil and Cum it on. Select black with the right mouse 
button and clear the screen. Every other line clears to 
black. On die spare screen, load the right landscape 
and right stencil, and then clear that screen. Making 
use of background color transparency, pick up one en- 
tire screen as a brush and place it on the spare screen 
interlaced with the other view. Adjusting the left/right 
placement is easier if you hit Alt-x to shift the brush 
handle to a lower corner. Superimpose foreground el- 
ements and stamp the brush in place. The Mars illus- 
tration in Figure 3 shows die interleaved pair before 
this adjustment If chip RAM is a problem, seleci 
Merge in Front from the Spare menu to combine two 
images. 

To view interleaved stereo images, run ON3D from 
the X-Specs drawer. This activates the glasses, syn- 
chronizing them to the interlace of the monitor. Note 
that you must have any de-interlacer disabled for view- 
ing with LCD glasses. Any display program will suffice 
for viewing the image as long as ON3D is running in 
the background. 

If you own a scanner or video digitizer, you can bring 
real-world photos into the Amiga for stereo manipu- 
lation and viewing. Follow the guidelines laid out ear- 
lier in the article to shoot prints, then digitize diem 
and tiy M3D or my interleaved stereo method for view- 
ing with X-Specs. Video footage in which the camera 
pans smoothly past a scene can also provide excellent 
stereo pairs. 

Brush Up . 

It is relatively easy to produce dramatic hand-painted 
stereo images with any paint program that has spare- 
screen capabilities. Just paint a left and a right version 
of die image. Figure 4 shows a few basics thai work well 
in Di'aint. The easiest experiment you might try is to 
create several brushes that will be placed in both im- 
ages. Each brush can be made to appear at a different 
screen depth. The formula is that a brush will appear 
to be behind the screen if in the left view it is to the 
left of its position in the right view. A brush will appear 
to float in front ol the screen il in the left view it is to 
the right of'its position in the right view. If [his sounds 
like word salad, read it again while you look at the 



balls in the upper left of Figure 4. The blue rectangle 
represents the screen plane. 

If you use Digi-Paint 3 (XewTck), you will find that 
when working in interlace mode, the program direct- 
ly supports stereo painting while you wear X-Specs. 
Run ON3D in the background, then use the "(" key to 
paint for the left eye and the ")" key to paint for the 
right eye. This can be addictive. 

To try stereo painting in Di'aint making use of its 
spalial and animation tools, create a two-frame anima- 
tion For your left and right views. Mark these two frames 



ti-res Stereo Image 
with insets showing 




Figure 3, This stereo view of Mars was created by manually interleav- 
ing left and right views. The images were created in VistaPro 3.0 
using the superb new texture settings. This merged image is intended 
for viewing with LCD goggles, which explains its strange appearance. 




Figure 4. Some basic DPaint techniques for hand-painted stereo 
pictures. 



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as "L" and "R", respectively, until you get the hang of 
things. On the spare screen, create a ball and pick it up 
as a brush. Stamp ii down on the left frame and then 
reposition it a quarter-inch tn the right without stamp- 
ing it down again. Keep it in place and press the 2 key 
to switch to the right frame. Stamp it in place and then 
save the two images as left and right pictures, not as an 
animation. Use M3D to load and view the result. The 
ball should seem to hang behind the screen. 

To continue your experiment, create a detailed 
brush then shear it to the left and right from DPaint's 
Brush/Rotate menu. Positioning these views as shown 
can make a brush penetrate the picture plane at an an- 
gle. Using DPaint's Perspective rotation can also give 




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Figure 5. The left-eye view of the Animatrix 3D modeler screen, which 
supports real-time X-Specs display while you work. 

a powerful illusion of dimension. Rotate each brush by 
a slightly different amount. Placement of the brush 
handle can affect the result. 

If you read "Accent on Graphics" #48 (Feb. '93, p. 
60) on creating a parallax scroll animation, successive 
frames of such an animation will show depth if viewed 
as a stereo pair. This will be most effective if the in- 
cremental movement of each layer is relatively small. 
Use the same concept of layered space to paint stereo 
pairs. The further back in space you want a layer to lie, 
the greater the left/tight separation should be. [fyou 
followed the planet-rotation technique in "Around the 
World in 80 Frames" (Oct. '01. p. 39), successive frames 
of those animations can also yield effective stereo pairs. 
To try a variation, create a large rectangle of texture 
as a brush. Place it on a two-frame animation, shifting 
it horizontally for the second frame. Cut an animbrush 
from within this area. Clear the animation and create 
a solid circle on both frames. Set Fill mode to Wrap 
and fill each circle with successive eels from the anim- 
brush. As a left and right stereo pair, this has interest- 
ing dimension — not really a sphere, but more like a 
blunt cone. If you get the hang of these few experi- 
ments, endless ideas will undoubtedly come to you. 

Interleaved stereo animations can be created using 



DPaint IY's Move requester with the left and right sten- 
cils discussed earlier. For instance, to make a ball move 
away on the /.-axis, load the left stencil and place the 
ball brush on frame 1 of an animation. In the Move re- 
quester, enter a negative x distance and a positive z dis- 
tance, and then select Draw. When finished, load the 
right stencil, superimpose the ball with itself on frame 
1, enter a positive x value and an unchanged z value 
in the Move requester, and then select Draw. Run 
ON3D and play the animation. The ball will recede in 
stereo space as well as shrinking on the z-axis. Com- 
bine this with a stereo landscape background for an im- 
pressive 3-D demonstration. 

Composite Functions 

Oneway to create a 2-1-bit high-resolution stereo image 
is to generate and save the 24-bit pair as I.eft24 and 
Right24, and then use the Composite features of ASDG's 
Art Department Professional to merge the pair as an in- 
terleaved stereo image. First create and save a DPaint 
image of black and white lines to be used as a mask. In 
ADPro Com]] mode, load the Ueft24 image, and then 
load the mask with RGB transparency levels set to 0,0,0. 
The Ueft24 landscape now has alternate white lines. 
Save it, and then load the Right24 image selecting No 
Comp. Next, reload the Left24 with the alternate white 
lines. In the Composite interface, set RGB levels to 
255, 255, 255 and select OK. This makes the white of 
the incoming image transparent, resulting in a com- 
posite of the pair as an interleaved stereo image. 

Using ON3D, you can view this image with DCTV 
(Digital Creations) or OpalYision on an interlaced 
monitor. If you use Imagemaster (Black Bell Systems), 
ii has an X-Specs separation feature under Geometric 
Transformations in the Process panel that splits the 
odd and even lines of an image into two clips. Two oth- 
er X-Specs function buttons allow' you to convert over- 
under format images to interleaved, and vice-versa. 

I have concentrated in this article on painting and 
landscape-generation techniques because there is little 
documentation on stereo applications in these media. 
Many other software packages also support X-Specs 
and stereo imaging, including Imagine 2.0 (Impulse), 
Caligari (Octree), Pixel 3D (Axiom), Turbo Silver SV 
(Impulse i. :'.l) Professional (Progressive Peripherals), 
and Page Render 3D (discontinued). Consult those 
manuals for hints and effective settings. A couple of ob- 
ject modelers, .Animatrix (Dubois .Animation) and Vi- 
sionModeller 3D (ShaderSoft), even let you work with 
a real-time X-Specs stereo display. The Animatrix in- 
terlace is shown in Figure 5. 

Any stereo graphics and animation you view with X- 
Specs can be recorded to a VCR and then viewed with 
Haitex's X-Specs TV system (S169.95). This unit plugs 
into your VCR instead of your computer for viewing 
3-D videotapes. The unit is so small you could easilv 
pack il and the LCD glasses in the space taken up by 
a couple of VMS tapes. For more ideas on inexpensive 
ways to view stereo images, turn to this month's "Ac- 
cent on Graphics" (p.48). ■ 

fori Hagen's credits include work in art, astronomy, science 
fiction, and software development. Write to him at 10512 
Sawyer. Oakdale, CA 95361. Please include a stamped, self- 
addressed envelope for a reply. 



31 Month 1993 





Everything you need to know about PC bridgeboards 

(with eight board-to-board comparisons) — no matter which 

model Amiga you own or what kind of PC you want to emulate. 



Big Blue? Big Business? Big Brother? You all know 
i he epithets that come to some people's minds 
when that computer monolith is mentioned. But 
say what you might about the PC and its com- 
patibles, it is ilierfc fiirlo standard in the computing world 
today, outnumbering Amigas by several orders of mag- 
nitude. You may not be able to avoid PCs at work, so 
sometimes you might need to run software like Word for 
Windows or Excel at home. Or, it's even possible that, like 
me, you find some PC software as indispensable as your 
Amiga itself. 

In either case, you have two choices: Buy two comput- 
ers — and end up with two monitors, two sets of periph- 
erals, and an office that looks like a computer store — or 
add an emulator to your Amiga that allows you to share 



data and lots of precious hardware between two ordinar- 
ily incompatible systems. 

Blue... And You 

There really are a lot of reasons to use a PC these days, 
not the least of which is Microsoft Windows 3. 1 . Windows 
isn't perfect, though it is a fairly slick operating environ- 
ment ... in some ways, better than Workbench. Windows' 
on-line hypertext help, lor instance, is first rate. While I 
wouldn't recommend Windows over Workbench, I've 
found a need for both. 

Just as there's an Amiga to lit virtually every need, PC 
emulators ("bridgeboards") are plentiful and various 
enough to suit just about everybody. As you can see from 
Table 1, they come in a wide variety of capabilities and 



By Dave Johnson 



ILLUSTRATED IJY WARREN < .EISERT 



AmigaWnrltl 55 



K M U L A TORS 



Table 1: 



Emulators at a Glance 



MODEL 


Golden Gate 
486SLC 


Golden Gate 
386SX 


EMC486 
SLC 


A2386SX 

Bridgeboard 


A2286 
Bridgeboard 


A500 
PC/286 


Manufacturer 


Vortex 


Vortex 


EMC 


Commodore 


Commodore 


GVP 


Host Amiga 


A 2/3/4000 


A 2/3/4000 


A 2/3/4000 
$1100 


A 2/3/4000 


A2/3/4000 


A 500 + 

GVP drive 


Price 


S919.99 


S539.99 


$649 


Discontinued* 


$99 


Processor 


Cyrix 486SLC-Z5 


AMD 386SX-25 


Cyrix 486SLC-33 


Intel 386SX-20 


80286-8 


80286-16 


Benchmarks: 
Sysinfo 
MIPS 
Norton SI 


45.9 

4.55 
33.4-36.1 


23.0 

2.97 
12.0 


101.0 
7.5 
54.0-62.0 

:36 


23.0 

2,42 
11.1 


7.7 

.96 
4.3 


15.3 
1.68 


Real-world 
Speed: 


















Links386 






1:03 


1:13 




HJWin 
Print 


:4G 

2:00 


:50 
2:15 


rf dn 






:26 
1:15 


1 :40 
8:00 




Installation 


Easy 


Easy 


Difficult 


Difficult 


Easy 


Moderate 


Pluses 


MonitorMaster 

SIMMs 

IDE Controller 


MonitorMaster 

SIMMs 

IDE Controller 


Very fast 
















Minuses 


Win. Disk bug 
FDC optional 


Win. Disk bug 
FDC optional 


No serial port 
Janus drives 


No serial port 
Janus drives 


No serial port 

J Emus drives 
Can't use DFO: 











Janus 
Compatible? 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



No 



DOS in Amiga 
Partition? 



Yes 



Yes 



No 



No 



No 



Yes 



Exchange 
Amiga and 
DOS Data? 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Yes 



Memory 



16MB" 



16MB" 



8MB 



8MB 



ISA RAM card 
required 



512K + Amiga 
RAM 



Video Modes 


ISA card 


ISA card 


ISA care 




CGA 


CGA 


MDA 




Olivetti 


Olivetti 


CGA 




Hercules 


Hercules 






EGA/VGA 


EGA/VGA 










Emulator Type 


Mouse, Serial, 


Mouse, Serial, 


Mouse, 




Parallel 


Parallel 


Parallel 


Overall Rating 


1 


3 


2 



ISA card 

MDA 

CGA 



Mouse, 
Parallel 



ISA card 

MDA 

CGA 



Mouse, 
Parallel 



CGA 
Olivetti 
Hercules 
EGA/VGA 



Mouse, Serial, 
Parallel 



*Sf/// available through some retail outlets; prices vary. * "Amiga can use 4MB of emulator RAM or emulator can use halt of Amiga's RAM. 



If, July 1993 



E >[ I I, A i R S 



ATonce 
Plus 

Vortex 


Power PC 
Board 

Supra 


A 500/2000 


A 500 

A 2/3/4000 with adapter 


Discontinued* 


S349.95 


80286-16 


NECV30-11 


15.3 
1.79 


4.4 
.63 



Difficult 



Leaves slots 
open 



Installation voids 
Amiga warranty 



No 



Yes 



Yes 



Easy 

Provides up to 
1MB for Amiga 



Doesn't multitask 
No support for ISA 
slots in A2/3/4000 



No 



Yes 



No 



640K + Amiga 

RAM 


1M8 + 
RAM 


Amiga 




CGA 

Olivetti 


MGA 
VGA 




Hercules 






EGA/VGA 






Mouse, Serial, 
Parallel 


Mouse 
Paralle 


Serial, 

, Joystick 



prices, and, somewhat surprisingly, they all work 
prettv well; there are no clogs here. .As a rule, I wouldn't 
recommend buying anything less than a 386SX, though 
your needs may be limited enough to justify one of the 
slower emulators. Remember that the 8088 was the guts 
of the original IBM PC;, a technology that is easily ten 
years old. The 286 oilers about a ten-fold increase in 
performance, but it, too, is getting old. A lot of new soft- 
ware will run on a 28f> only begrudgingiy, or not at all. 
Of course, a card like the Commodore A2286 is per- 
fectly adequate for running old standards like Wordstar. 
If von do step up to one ol the new, fast emulators, 
I think you'll find that a 386SX running Windows can 
even be an enjoyable experience. Even though Intel 
plans to roll out its 100 MIPS, 6-1-bit wide Pentium chip 
sometime next year, a 386 or 48C emulator should be 
able to serve you comfortably for years to come. So, for 
those ofyOU in the market for a PC emulator, we'll ex- 
amine eight different models to choose from. But, first, 
let's take a look at some Amiga-PC basics. (For infor- 
mation on contacting the developer oj any product covered in 
this article, see the "Manujactitrers /Distributors' Addresses" 
list on p. 102.) 

Input/Output 

All emulators have to let you get data in and out. Most 
bridge-boards let yon use the Amiga's floppy drives as 
PCI drives — low-density ones, of course. In order to 
read 1.4-1 Mil, high-dcnsilv floppies, you must own an 
Amiga with such a drive (like some A3000s and the new 
A4000). An A2000 or A4000 can actually support both 
3.5" and 5.25" drives internally for the ultimate in con- 
venience, but if you have a high-density 3.5" drive, it 
is pretty easy to get by without its floppier cousin. 

.As for hard disks, most emulators force you to use 
the Amiga drive, one way or another, as the PC's stor- 
age medium. The exceptions are Zorro-slot Amiga em- 
ulators, which accept PC; hard disks in the ISA expan- 
sion slots. The Vortex Golden Gate emulators also 
have an [DE interface right on the board. Otherwise, 
there are two ways of adding a PC hard disk to your 
Amiga: through a single file or via an entire partition. 

If you chose the file method, the emulator creates a 
large file on the Amiga's hard disk, and your new PC be- 
lieves for all the world thai the file is an entire drive. This 
svstem lends itself to archives with your normal Amiga 
back-up software, as Amiga DOS treats the DOS drive 
like any other file. The major downside of this system is 
its lack of speed. Because the PC; must jump through 
AmigaDOS hoops to access its data, this arrangement 
can be much slower than the partition method. 

Commodore's hard-disk access scheme uses a software 
library called Janus, Janus drives, like all other file-based 
schemes, require the AmigaDOS Addbuffers command 
(and a suitable iiivestmeni of Amiga RAM) to operate at 
acceptable speeds. Commodore recommends 50 buffers 
or so for every megabyte of hard-disk space, so a 50MB 
DOS drive will consume about 1 .5MB of fast RAM. On 
the other hand, Janus drives can grow in size as you write 
data to them, like a RAM disk, lor additional flexibility. 

The partition method requires you to have an 
empty Amiga partition on your hard disk, which you 
formal in MS-DOS. The Amiga considers it a valid, 
empty partition, hut your PC accesses it like a DOS dri- 
ve at ordinary hard-disk access speeds. Many emula- 
tors allow you to use either the lile or partition method 



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with the notable exception of the Commodore hoards, 
which use only the file method or an independent 
DOS drive. I'd recommend sticking with partitions for 
their speed and portability. If, lor instance, yon use the 
partition method on an industry-standard Svquest car- 
tridge, you can use that same DOS drive if you up- 
grade from. say. the CAT PC/286 to a Vortex 486SLC 
later. You can even use it directly on a real PC. 

The A500 Gang 

Sitpra's Power PC Board ($349.95) anchors the low 
end of the PC market with an 8088 emulator. While 
my initial instinct was that this would prove to be lit- 
tle more than an historical curiosity. Supra surprised 
me with a flexible version of the PC that got it all go- 
ing. It is a good choice for the budget-minded Amiga 
500 user who hasn't yet added memory to the trapdoor 
of his machine — it is both an emulator and memory- 
expansion card in one. 

If, on the other hand, you have a more sophisticat- 
ed Amiga 500 configuration that includes a GVP hard 
disk or accelerator, there's room in the chassis for 
GVP's PC/286 board (S99). Installation of this emula- 
tor, which requires you to open up the GVP hard-disk 
case, is straightforward for anyone who feels reason- 
abb' comfortable with a screwdriver. Be lorewarned: 
GYP isn't kidding when it tells you to watch out for the 
fan and LED cables that tether the n\o halves of the 
case together. Open the case gingerly lest you pull the 
cables out of their sockets before you see which way to 
plug them back in. 

Only the Vortex ATonce-Plus (now discontinued) — 



Table 2: Clash of the Titans 

VORTEX 486: 
As shipped 
With cache optimized 

EMC 486: 
Using Addbuffers 
Second time using Addbuffers 
No Addbuffers 



HJWin 

:46 

:32 



:26 

:18 

4:07 



Links386 

1:03 

:42 



:36 

:18 

2:27 




Table 3: Sysinfo and MIPS Ratings 



also a a 286 emulator — is tricky to install, as you have 
to open the A500, remove the 68000, and wedge the 
emulator in its place. It is easy enough to do, but only 
for those who don't feel squeamish at the thought of 
plugging in a modem. 

Both in terms of speed and functionality, the two 
286 offerings are so similar that the decision to buy 
one or the other should be largely a function of your 
own system configuration. The primary reason to buy 
the Power PC, however, is the additional memory it 
provides, as it has little to offer that you can't get in a 
shareware software-only emulator. 

The Commodore Emulators 

Ironically, of all the emulators discussed here, the one 
with the most complicated installation was made by the 
very company that makes both Amigas and PC clones. 
Commodore's A2386SX (S649) is daunting to config- 
ure due to the dizzying array of options, limitations, 
cables, and jumpers. The A2386, for instance, was the 
only emulator that required physically recabling dfD: 
in order to share the drive between the PC and Ami- 
ga. Further, I had to read through the manual with a 
highlighting pen in hand so I could get a good feel for 
what I had to do. This confusion was compounded by 
having two almost identical, and therefore redundant, 
manuals, plus a few vague instructional statements that 
required a vibrant imagination to properly interpret. 

In order to use the Amiga mouse under Windows 8. I , 
for instance, the manual illogically referred me to the 
Microsoft Windows' manual for installation instructions. 
Alter much frustration, 1 decided, on a longshot, to re- 
name the Commodore-supplied mouse driver as the Mi- 
crosoft mouse driver: Unexpectedly, it worked! 

I applaud Commodore for having the only emula- 
tor to do the obvious. The A2386 doesn't wait for you 
to run an emulation program to start; it boots at the 
same time as the Amiga — as soon as you turn it on. 
This is a real advantage for people who have inordi- 
nately lengthy AUTOEXEC.BAT files. Still, Com- 
modore's A2386 is a mixed bag. It is unnecessarily 
complicated to set up, though once you're past that, it 
works great. On the other hand, it does not let you use 
the Amiga's serial port. And while there is an input on 
the card for a monitor switch, like Vortex's Golden 
Gate emulators do for that company's MonitorMaster, 
the Commodore device currently does not exist. 

Commodore's A2286 (now discontinued) does not 
present nearly as many problems — but, then again, it 
oilers only the older 286 emulation capability. 

The Big Guns 

Elite Microcomputers has taken Commodore's 386 
board and transformed it into a fast 33 MHz 
486SLC— the EMC 486SLC ($1 100). Essentially iden- 
tical to the Commodore board from which it is rebuilt, 
the EMC lias all of the prior's strengths and weak- 
nesses, but it is the fastest board on the block. EMC 
sells an I/O board that complements its emulator quite 
well. It has two serial ports and a parallel port, game 
port, and SVGA output all in one package. The video 
ships with 512KB, upgradable all the way to a 32,000- 
color display. The EMC is so good, it was a lough call 
for picking a best board . . . the EMC or the Vortex 
Golden Gate. Speed isn't everything, though. The 



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Bring Home The Best 





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If you're thinking about getting an Amiga 1, 
special effects or image processing 
product, here are some facts to consider: 

• ASDG'sArt Department Professional 
was named the "Best Image Processing 
Program" for 1 992 by the readers of 
Amazing Computing Magazine and "Best 
Video Software" by Germany's Amiga Plus 
Magazine. 

• American Software And Hardware 
Distributors and MicroPace Distributors 
(the two largest Amiga" software 
distributors in North America) cite ADPro 
and MorphPlus as the best selling 
products of their kind. 

• ADPro placed third among ALL Amiga' 
software products on the MicroPace 
1992 Top 50 Sellers List. 

• The Post Group, one of the largest post 
production houses in the world, has used 
ADPro and MorphPlus in the production 
of special effects for the prime time TV 




show Quantum Leap and for major 
motion pictures. 

• Mark Swain, an AmigaVVorld 
reviewer (and animator for Foundation 
Imaging, the creators of the special 
effects for Babylon 5), said, "MorphPlus 
produces the most realistic shape 
shifting special effects I have ever seen 
on a desktop." 

• David Duberman, Executive Editor 
of Video Toaster User, said in a 
comparative review of Amiga' 



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Rolls Royce of Amiga' morphing 
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WIIETHF.R YOl RK a PC novice or 
even if you've been around the block a 
Tew times with Blue, you still will prob- 
ably (eel something of a "Stranger in a 
Strange Land" when it comes to oper- 
ating in the MS-DOS world. Having 
just put an emulator in your Amiga, 
you're probably wondering where you 
should go from here. What is the best, 
most productive software and hard- 
ware to complement vour new, dual- 
DOS computer? Consider these ten 
items as a roadmap to your Future pro- 
ductivity. 

SOFTWARE 

i. MS-DOS You need DOS. That 
may sound obvious enough, but you 
can't get by on Windows alone; Win- 
dows 8.1 doesn't replace DOS, it is an 
operating environment that runs on 
top of it. just about any DOS version 
will do, but if your emulator did not 
come with a bootable version of MS- 
DOS, you should pick up MS-DOS 5.0 
(S99.95, Microsoft) for its new features 
such as 2.88MB floppy disks and a 
graphical "shell." By the way, remem- 
ber that the vast majority of DOS pack- 
ages sold in stores are not bootable, 
but rather upgrade packages. You may 
have to special order it. 

2. Windows If you want to make your 
PC look as similar to the Amiga as pos- 
sible, buy Windows 3.1 ($149.95, Mi- 
crosoft). It is many orders of magnitude 
better than Windows 3.0, so if that is all 
you've seen, don't worry: Version 3.1 is 
quite nice. As a matter of fact, you won't 
have many reasons to enter DOS at all 
with Windows, as the quantity of quali- 
ty Windows applications is growing as- 
tronomically. Look at it this way: There 
are almost as many copies of Windows 
sold even' month as there are Amigas 
in the entire world. 

3. Image Manipulation If you're 
looking for a piece of software thai can 
convert among the myriad of PC im- 
age-file formats {and Amiga too), look 
no further than Hijak for Windows 
(S249, Inset Systems), a one-stop shop- 
ping trip for file conversion. Though it 
handles dozens of formats, it doesn't 
vet deal with Amiga HAM. On the 



Amiga side, Imagemaster (S249.95, 
Black Belt) handles a very wide variety 
of file formats, including DOS stan- 
dards. The freeware file viewer 
YiewTek (Thomas Krehbiei) displays 
the popular GIF format in HAMS with- 
out prior conversion, and it thus has a 
permanent place on my Workbench 
screen. 

4. Word Processing There are quite 
a number word processing options 
available on the PC, and I'm afraid to 
say that many of them are a lot better 
than what we have to choose from here 
on the Amiga. AmiPro for Windows 
(9495, Lotus Development) and Word 
for Windows ($495, Microsoft) are iwo 
excellent choices. Both have every fea- 
ture found in ProWrite, Final Copy, 
and excellence! combined, plus the 
ability to effortlessly create a wide ar- 
ray of tables and graphs and handle 
math equations. 

5. Personal Organizer While you're 
spending so much time in PC land, 
why not take advantage of what the PC 
does best? A program such as Lotus 
Organizer (SI 49, Lotus Development) 
provides an easy-to-use calendar, to- 
do list, anniversary tracker, long-term 
planner, and more. Entries can be 
linked to each other and reminders 
pop right up on the desktop. 

HARDWARE 

6. Video Card Willi the low price of 
video display cards today, there's no 
reason to settle for the slow r video em- 
ulation provided by emulators, VGA 
cards run as little as S40, and a decent 
SVGA card cosls less than SI GO. Look 
for a card that can display in 
800x600 pixels and 256 colors, 
which requires a board with at least 
I MB of RAM. 



similarly provides emulation of AdLib 
and other cards, as well as a joystick 
port. One option is Sigma Designs' 
WinStorm board (S429) which pro- 
vides 24-bit SVGA color, 16-bit Sound- 
Blaster-compatible sound, a SCSI port, 
and joystick input. 

8. Serial Port Most emulators in- 
clude access to the Amiga's serial port, 
but if you plan to run IBM's OS/2, it 
seems picky about seeing a real serial 
port. Elite Microcomputers (EMC) 
sells a multi I/O card (S200) for its 
48GSI.C that contains two serial ports 
in addition to lots of other goodies, in- 
cluding SVGA video. 

9. More Hard-Disk Space The pres- 
ence of a PC in your system will un- 
doubtedly put an even bigger squeeze 
on your already cramped hard disk. A 
Svquest drive gives you unlimited stor- 
age space, and a unique advantage un- 
available elsewhere. I maintain several 
88MB cartridges from which I can boot; 
each one is configured differently for 
DOS, Windows, and game sessions. 

10. Joystick It is well known in the 
gaming community that analog joy- 
sticks for the PC market are much pre- 
ferred to the Amiga's digital sticks, par- 
ticularly for tasks like flight simulators. 
If you add a PC joystick to your 
line-up, it can also be used 
on the Amiga via one of sev- 
eral adapters now on the 
market. D — Df 



7. Sound Hoard The final 
touch For PC-adzing 
your Amiga is to 
add the Sound- 
Blaster Deluxe 
(SI 29.95, Creative 
Labs) sound board 
or a SoundBlaster- 
compatible which 




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DiqitiirrCard 



Retina™ - 2 4 B i t Frame Buffer and 
Workbench Emulation 

Output: DB-15 VGA Connector - Analog 
RGB output Supports 15 - 75KHz Hor. Freq. 
and 50 - 95 Vert. Freq, 

800x600fulI24Bii Id. 7 Million color Display 
Non-interlaced. Allows multiple 8, l6,and24Bit 
Resolutions. 

Full Workbench Emulation with resolutions 
such as 1 024x768 or 1 280x1024 in 1 6 colors or 
even more! Up to 2400x1200! Compatible with 
Amiga 1950.1960 and VGA and 
up monitors. 

Ram Configurations 2 Megabytes or 4 
Megabytes. 4MB allows double buffering for 
animations. 

Compatible with the A2000, A3000, and 
A4000 series Amigas. installs into any 100 pin 
Amiga slot does not use the video slot. 
Compatible with the Video Toaster and 
OpalVision. 

XlPaint is a real-time 24Bit paint program 
that comes with the Retina. 

The Retina can still be used to display 24Bit 
graphics while emulating Workbench at a 
maximum resolution of 1280x1024 non- 
interlaced and you could have AdPro running on 
it's own screen at 320x200. 

You can change the output resolution for any 
program simply by choosing the program name 
and then selecting a different screen resolution 
for that program. 

Compatible with programs such as AdPro, 
Morph Plus. Muliil-'ramc. TVPaint. ImageFX. 
ProPage, ProWrite, PageStream, DynaCadd, 
Imagine 2.0 to name a few. 

The Retina requires the 2.0 or greater 
operating system. 



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VLab™ - RealTime Video Digitizer 

Digitizes a full frame in l/30thbf a second or 
I field in l/M)ih of a second. Digitizes in full 
Broadcast NTSC or PAL 

Will -save images as 24Bit, YUV, or any 
Amiga forma l including AGA modes like UamS. 

The VLab™ has 2 Composite Video inputs. 

The VLab will work in the A2000, A3000 
and the A4000 series Amiga Computers and 
does not use the video slot. 

There is also a VLab 1 200 thai allows owners 
of the A 1200. A500, A600 to also 
use the VLab. 

The VLab docs not require a frame accurate 
video player to hold the image still to digitize. 

The Vlab will in real-time digitize an\ frame 
from the video source that you 
have connected. 

You can digitize images from cable TV, 
Broadcast TV, VCR. Video Disk Players, and 
Video Cameras. 

The VLab is supported by popular Graphics 
software such as ASDG's An Department 
Professional, TVPaint by TechSoft. MultiFrame 
by MacroSystemUS. 

There isaspecial monitor window that allows 
you to see the video signal that you have attached 
to the VLab in a window on the VLab screen in 
up to 1 6 gray scales. 

The VLab software requires the 2.0 operating 
system or higher and is fully 
ARcxx compatible. 

The VLab is compatible with the Video 
Toaster, OpalVision. Retina™, and Harlequin. 

The VLab is also supported by the 
Nucleas Personal SFC. 



MxMFrameforMPro 

MultiFrame is a front end for the Art 
Department Professional and Morph Plus thai 
allows you much greater control over multiple- 
frame processing. You can manipulate single or 
mu Itiplc images overtime creating special effects 
with just a few mouse clicks. The perfect tool for 
creating effects with a large number of images 
for output to video. 

MultiFrame Features: 

-Process images over time - most processes 
can be manipulated with a stalling value and an 
ending value with the separation being the 
number of frames thai you choose to make. 
Generates all frames automatically for you. 

-Non-linear motion interpolation using true 
splines with adjustable knots, tension, continuity 
and bias. Full spline-controlled variables. 

-Perform ADO-slylclly-insof moving images 
easi I y using MORPr I PLUS perspecti veoperator. 

-Create a morph from a flat to a sphere using 
SPHERE with EFFECT start and end values of 
Oand 100 respectively. 

•Multiple frame/Multiple Ripples, allowing 
ripples thatstartat different dmes that accelerate/ 
decelerate over time and can move. 

-Use the compositor to rotoscope images 
using foreground images, background images 
and alpha for malting images over others. 

-Automatic compositing of images over 
backgrounds using true alpha-channel/ 
holecuttcr/kcy effects. 

-Use a black & white animation as a wipe- 
pattern, transition between a background 
sequence and a foreground sequence using the 
B&W frames as an alpha sequence in compositor. 

-Create panning/li hi ng camera effects on sti 1 1 
images orsequenccs. Movable skew/tilingeffccls 
with panning/tilling camera moves, 

-Auto triggering of 4 GPI (General Purpose 
Interface, optional) functions for recording/ 
control of devices such as Digital Disk Recorders 
from SONY and ABEKAS^ 

-Complex operator/processes (sphere. 
perspective, etc. . . ) now a! low loading and saving 
of all parameters for easy recall. -Automatic 
conversion of any supported image format to 
any other format (including ANIM-5/AN1M-8 
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EMC would have certainly won if it were not for the 
clunkv Janus drive system, lack of on-board serial-port 
support, and the absence of the monitor switch (blame 
Commodore on all counts, not EMC). 

Both of the high-end Vortex cards — the Golden Gate 
386SX (S539.99) and the Golden Gate 486SLC 
($919.99) — are built around the same Vortex bus and 
probably offer the most versatility of all the emulators. 
They have a lot of nice little touches, like the use of in- 
dustry-standard SIMMs, very flexible memory options, 
MonitorMaster (a software controlled monitor switch 
for viewing VGA and .Amiga on the same display), the 
ability to use Janus drives you might have set up with an 
older Commodore bridgeboard, and more. Unfortu- 
nately, the emulator software currently has a nasty bug 
that prevents some floppy-disk functions, such as Nor- 
ton Backup, from working properly in Windows 3.1. 
On the whole, though, either board is quite a buy. 

Vortex and EMC have both taken a fair bit of heat 
over their decisions to build emulators around the 
486SLC chip, a souped-up 16-bit 386 CPU that uses 
the 486SX instruction set. When you get right down to 
it, the extra performance a 486SX or DX might offer 
would likely be small compared to the additional cost 
when you consider the bottleneck is at the 8 MHz video 
card. As it stands, though, both of these boards per- 
form better than a 33 MHz Compaq 386. 

The Real World speed lest in Table 1 pits the 386 
and 486 boards against each other in a few represen- 
tative tasks: drawing the first hole in Links386, ren- 
dering a GIF in Hijak for Windows, and printing the 
first page of this article in AmiPro for Windows. No 
matter how you stack it, the EMC board comes out on 
top, though a glance at Table 2 will show that there's 
more here than meets the eye. 

The Vortex board surprisingly ships without its 
cache optimized. All the Golden Gate test results in 



The Mac Gap 

UT4F.N IT COMES to emulating other operating systems on the Amiga, 
it turns out that the IBM PC. compatible isn't the only game in town. 
ReadySofl has been making the Macintosh's happy face a familiar sight 
on Amigas everywhere for a few years now, and the latest incarnation of 
its product, A-Max II Plus (S499.95), provides seamless Mac emulation 
in the form of a card for Zorro-slot .Amigas. A-Max runs monochrome 
Macintosh software as if the Amiga were a Mac SE or Classic, at least as 
fast as the original Macintosh could. 

A-Max lets you use the Amiga's parallel and serial ports as Mac pe- 
ripherals, and with die advent of the II Plus, Amiga drives can read and 
write Mac disks. The only catch is that you have to provide your own Mac 
ROMs, and the price of those hunks of silicon varies depending on how 
tightly Apple is controlling them at the moment. 

One thing A-Max can't do is run software in Mac II or high-color 
modes. A new product that promises to fix that is Emplant ($279.95, 
Utilities Unlimited), a multi-OS emulator that can run up to four dif- 
ferent operating systems from the same card. Although Emplant has 
been selling for about six months, it has had the sort of spotty history 
indicative of a complicated hardware product that wasn't quite ready to 
ship. It promises to be a very impressive product, however: 256-color 
displays using AG.A chips, a SCSI interface, a PCMCIA version for the 
A 1200, and more. {Editor's Note: AmigaWorld will review Emplant next 
month in the August issue.) O — DJ 



Table 1 are based on the stock board, but I ran across 
a cache utility that pushed more speed out of the 
card — over a MIPS faster, in fact. Table 2 shows some 
"before-and-after" numbers for the optimized 486. If 
you use such a utility, you can close some of the speed 
gap between these two boards. 

The EMC board, for its part, uses the Janus hard- 
drive system, so it is slower than a hypothetical]}' iden- 
tical emulator that might use the partition method. 
Also, you can see that a Janus drive without any Acld- 
buffers is prohibitively slow. Table 2 further demon- 
strates how much potential die EMC board has, but los- 
es, due to the Janus drive. I performed the same 
operation twice — presuming that the second time 
would be directly from the cache created by Amiga- 
DOS's Addbuffers command, and therefore a better 
test of just how fast the board really is. 

By the way, the benchmarks in Tables 1 and 3 
shouldn't be taken as absolute values. Like all bench- 
marks, they are only valid for comparisons between 
similar systems. Also, you could get different values 
using different benchmarking utilities. 

Emulating On A Budget 

Of course, you might not be desperate enough for PC 
emulation to run out and buy one of these expensive 
contraptions. You may. however, want to occasionally 
copv DOS files, run a PC word processor, or view disks 
full of GIF graphics. Well, there's help for you, too. To 
simply copy DOS disks (low density, unless you have a 
high-density Amiga drive), all you need is CrossDOS. 
CrossDOS is part of AtnigaDOS 2.1 and higher, al- 
though you can also buy the latest version, CrossDOS 
5.0 (S59.95), separately from Constiltron. It is a sim- 
ple utility 7 that puts DOS disks on the Workbench for 
formatting and file transfer. Even if you get an emu- 
lator that has its own Amiga-to-DOS file transfer pro- 
gram, I would recommend using CrossDOS anyway. 
It's simply the best program of its kind around. As if 
the deal needed sweetening, the stand-alone, ttOn- 
Workbench-2.1 CrossDOS 3.0 package includes 
CrossPC, a simple but very useful XT emulator. 

Shareware alternatives to PC computing include 
programs like IBeM and PC-Task. These are available 
on most BBSs, including major services like GEnie. 
While they offer little in the way of features, you can 
run traditional PC software on them. They all provide 
IBM-XT emulation in CGA and run at about the speed 
of an actual XT (or faster if you are using an acceler- 
ated .Amiga). Combined with CrossDOS, one of these 
utilities might suit your needs. 

The bottom line for a lot of people is whether to buy 
an emulator or just get a real PC compatible; in man)' 
cases the cost weighs in favor of the real McCoy. Tire 
Amiga market, though, now offers a good crop of emu- 
lators, particularly for the Zorro-sloi machines, and they 
can do everything a real PC can do, including CD-ROMs, 
networks, and Windows. In either case, once you've made 
up your mind. I'll see you at the A: prompt! ■ 

Dave Johnson authored the book The Desktop Studio: Mul- 
timedia with the Amiga, and lie is ti fret/tinit contributor 
to Amiga ant! other computer publications, Write to him c/o 
AmigaWorld, Editorial DepL, SO Elm St., Peterborough, 
NEI 03458. 



42 July 1993 



PUT ON THE 




While computer viruses may be apart of life, the fear they inspire doesn't 

have to be a part of your life. Arm yourself with the protective powers invoked 

here by the US representative of Safe Hex International 



"Double, double 

toil anil trouble; 

Fire, hum, 

anil cauldron, 

bubble." 

SO SA! D THE 
witches in Macbeth as 
they pretended to 
safeguard thai would- 
be king of Scotland. 
But don't think that you 
have to resort to spells 
or voodoo to protect 
your Amiga from the per 
nicious effects of the grow- 
ing number of computer 
viruses. There are practical 
steps you can take to prevent al 
most all those viral threats from in- 
fecting your Amiga. 

Let's start by examining some basic types 




of viruses and how 
they go about in- 
fecting your system. 
Then we'll look at 
some general mea- 
sures and good com- 
puting practices that 
can help you avoid 
viruses before they 
strike. Finally, we'll sur- 
vey some of the newer, 
more potent virus- 
protection programs. 
Remember, viral 
threats can come from 
almost anywhere — 
public-domain soft- 
ware, pirated (illegally 
distributed) versions of 
programs, and even fac- 
tory-sealed commercial 
packages. In other words, no 
computer user is sale from viruses. (In- 



Ity Jim MaGiorowski 



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formation about contacting developers of virus-protect ion pro- 
grams — marked in bold where mentioned in the text — can be 
found in the "Contacts" box at the end of the article, along with 
other useful sources of information and software.) 

Know Thine Enemy 

A virus is a sequence of commands (written as part of 
a program or as a program itself) that runs when a cer- 
tain criterion is met, such as a certain day of the week 
or when you turn on your computer for the first time. 
There are several different types of viruses and you 
should be concerned about each, especially if you en- 
joy downloading from bulletin board systems (BBSs). 
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Virus Rx: Safe Hex 



t HAVE MENTIONED Safe Hex International (SHI) several times in this 
article, and with good reason: This nonprofit organization is the leader in 
Amiga vims protection, sponsoring more than 20 "Regional Virus Centers" 
worldwide with phone support, SI II is currently working on programming 

projects to "innoculaEe" as many Amiga computers as possible in die short- 
est amount of time. Some of the activities underway include: 

• A universal Amiga BBS virus checker. 

• Standard updated virus libraries to be accessed by new virus killers. 
This gives programmers more time to work on new features for 
their programs, rather than rewrite their programs each time a 
virus is discovered. 

• Having virus "help disks" shipped with every new .Amiga comput- 
er, as is the case in Scandinavia. (Are you reading this. CBM of 
America?) 

• Sill's anti-virus disk, "'I"he New Superkillers," contains almost every 
virus killer mentioned in this article, and it is available for a S5 do- 
nation (S7 overseas). 

• SI II has also placed a reward (currendy at S4000) for information 
leading to the arrest and conviction of virus programmers. En- 
ticed? Be sure to write Cor more information (see the "Contacts" box 
for details on contacting Sale Hex). 

—JM 



most common form. As the name suggests, these virus- 
es reside on bootblocks of both floppy and hard disks 
(track 0, sectors and l ). Representatives of this strain 
vary from those that temporarily make your fast RAM 
inactive to ones that corrupt tracks 39 through 79, ren- 
dering the disk completely useless. These viruses are 
spread bv disk-copying programs of almost any kind. 

Don't confuse virus bootblocks with custom bootblocks. 
The latter are special bootblocks, typically of a non- 
standard DOS, which are required to be on the disk for 
the disk to load. Games are perhaps the largest con- 
tributor of these special bootblocks. Fortunately, the 
virus killers of today will usually recognize which boot- 
blocks are custom-made and which ones are viruses. 

The first bootblock virus was reported in 1 987 and 
was called the SCA (Swiss Cracker's Association) virus. 
It simply hides in your memory's CoolCapture until 
you reboot. These are generally the easiest viruses to 
detect. Often, using the INSTALL command from 
your Workbench disk will solve the problem of infect- 
ed bootblocks. Or you can install an anti-virus boot- 
block through killers like BootX and Find 'Em All. Be 
completely sure that the bootblock you are installing 
is a virus: If you remove a custom bootblock, you may 
wind up trashing a disk! And be cautious: If you are go- 
ing to start installing bootblocks. make backups First! 

File viruses are not as common as bootblock viruses, 
but they can do as much, if not more, damage. These 
viruses (sometimes called "Trojan Morses") arc activat- 
ed once you specify an executable file to run. A harm- 
less execute.me file could display an advertisement for 
a BBS while formatting your hard drive as a background 
task. These viruses are usually found as bogus versions 
of existing programs (sometimes even as phoney ver- 
sions of vims killers!). BootX 5.02 and any release of 
VimsX after version 4.0 1 (the last official release) are ex- 
amples of bogus releases and should not be used. If you 
call bulletin boards on a regular basis, be cautious be- 
Ibre downloading a new version of a program unless you 
know for certain that it tame from a reliable source. 

File viruses often operate in certain ways that, if you 
recognize their behavior, you can defeat them with a 
little detective work. Say a particular virus is wreaking 
havoc with your screen dispaly. Where should you start 
looking? Well, viruses almost always infect the first c: 
command in your startup-sequence. Like most file 
viruses, this virus places the c: command in your devs: 
directory as a nameless file and infects the one in your 
c: directory. 

First, find the infected command. Look for it in your 
c: directory (or wherever il was) and delete that file. 
Then load a disk utility that lets you view invisible files. 
(I prefer IXOVAtronics' Directory Opus but any one 
will do, including Progressive Peripherals' DiskMastcr 
or the freely distributable SID — Timm Martin, Fred 
Fish #651.) Look for the invisible file in your devs: di- 
rectory and rename it to its original name. Finally, 
move it back to the C directory (or wherever it was). 
Many virus killers will think your disk is infected if you 
don't rename this nameless file, so be sure to do it. 

Link viruses are extremely nasty and should not be 
disregarded. These viruses attach themselves to files 
and start infecting other files once they are executed. 
They can corrupt an entire hard disk in seconds. For- 
tunately, the virus killers of today can scan programs 
for suspicious programming code. Often if a program 



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VIRUSES 



has a link virus attached to it, the "new" program size 
will differ from the original program size. 

A typical example is the Saddam Mussein vims. This 
is a multiheaded lile and link vims (and there is also 
a bootblock virus of the same name). This virus always 
infects your L: directory, and it will create that direc- 
tory if it is not there already. It attaches itself to your 
disk-validator with the same size and the same name. 
Once executed, it spreads throughout the disk and 
writes "IRAK" in the start of any file (executable, text, 
or otherwise), but it does not change the size of the file. 
What's worse is that you cannot delete the virus from 
a file editor or through the CI.I. Advice? As former 
president Bush might have put it, "Read my lips: Use 
a current virus checker and make backups!" 

Some people believe that there are also viruses that 
can attack your clock and make it do weird things like 
lain backwards or run extremely fast. Clock viruses, how- 
ever, are nonexistent, period. There is not enough 
memory in your clock for a virus to infect your clock and 
remain alive in it. If your clock is acting screw)', use the 
SETCLOCK command from your Workbench disk to 
fix the time. Usually this will solve die problem. 

Prevention is the First Line of Defense 

Having read what viruses can possibly do to your com- 
puter, you may be asking yourself what you can do to 
avoid them. A simple, cavalier answer would be: Don't 
buy a computer. There is no guarantee that you won't 
encounter a virus, even if you use the latest virus-killing 
programs. However, such programs do offer a very re- 
liable measure of protection and a very acceptable rate 
of recover)' if your system does become infected. While 
we will look at specific vims programs in the next sec- 
tion, there are some general measures everyone can 
practice to avoid viruses in the first place. 

The easiest way to prevent virus infection and its 
spread is to always write-protect your disks. 'Iliis is not a 
time-consuming task. All it takes is the Hip of a notch on 
your 3.5" disks. (If you are using 5.25" disks, use black 
tape — not transparent tape — to cover the notch.) If you 
absolutely must have your floppy disks write-enabied, 
then shut your system down for 60 seconds before boot- 
ing up with a new disk. This will completely drain your 
memory of any possible virus. A normal reset (Control- 
Amiga-Amiga) does not clear your memory! Viruses can 
hide in certain areas of your memory, and can infect 
uTite-enabled disks when you do a warm reset. 

For even better protection, there is a hardware "virus 
warner" available from the Safe Hex International Re- 
gional Virus Center in England (see the "Contacts" 
box for details). This device will alert you to all virus 
writes, and it even has an automatic write-protect 
mode. It costs about $70 in American currency, but if 
you are dead paranoid about viruses, it could be well 
worth the investment. 

Also, ifyou do a lot of telecommunications, be sure 
that the files you download are virus-free. Watch for 
any reports of viruses. In addition, a number of BBS 
sysops employ a feature that checks files for viruses be- 
fore they are uploaded to their networks. (Every BBS 
should have this feature!) 

If you have a hard drive, you should have a con- 
troller that disables access to it. With some controllers 
it is called a "game switch." Don't be fooled, though, 



it's really a "virus switch," and I congratulate every 
manufacturer of hard-drive controllers who includes 
one! (Controllers that don't can even be modified to 
include a toggle switch, which works just as well.) 

Finally, keep in mind that even though many virus 
killers will detect infected disks and files in a moment's 
notice, you should not forget to make backups of all 
your important disks anyway. Virus killers will remove 
viruses, but if the viruses have "integrated" into your 
files, removing the viruses may pretty much trash the 
files as well. 

One last item to consider under the heading of pre- 
vention is that not all problems are virus-related. You 
may suddenly encounter some strange behavior on 



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your computer that seems to exhibit all the symptoms 
of a virus: However, ifyou have not exposed yourself 
to any new software recently, chances are you have a 
hardware problem. Check things like the chips on your 
8520 circuit {often a prime cause of virus-like symp- 
toms when they malfunction). 

Which Virus Killer Should You Use? 

Although 1 have been asked that question main times, 
the choice is ultimately up to you. There are many 
killers out there that do basically the same thing, but 
there are features in one program that you may pre- 
fer over those of another. All I can do is give vou some 
suggestions. 

What you want to look for in a virus program are 
such features as memory checking, reporting unknown 
bootblocks, and scanning disks for file and like virus- 
es. Following are descriptions of some proven virus 
programs; many of these are constantly being up- 
graded, so please be aware (hat version numbers oi 
some of these programs may have changed by the time 
this article goes to press. 

BootX 5.23a-1.74 by Peter Stuer is perhaps the best 
"Saddam" vims killer to date: It makes the vims passive 
and then restores the infected files — often to nearlv 100% 
of what they were before infection. This program usesaH 
separate brainfile (called "BootX. Recog," die "1.74" in^ 
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VIRUSES 



BoolX is also one of the first virus killers to utilitize 
the LOCALE feature of Workbench 2.1/3.0; in other 
words, it is one of the first killers that can he read in 
different languages! Of course, this version of BootX 
is for Workbench 2.x and up — the final release under 
Workbench 1.3 is BootX 4.50-1.68 (the '".Recog" fdes 
are no longer upwardly compatible). 

VirusZ 3.0 bv Ceorg Hoermann is one of my per- 
sonal preferences. It is one of the first killers to check 
archived files (files ending in .LHA, .LZH, .DMS, and 
so on) by using a "decrunch. library." It's excellent for 
running in the background: It's small, fast, and doesn't 
have a lot of annoying requester windows. 

Virus Checker 6.20 by John Veldthuis is another 
great killer choice to have running in the background. 
It is very easy to run and has a helpful "learn mode" 
for recognizing new viruses. First-time virus-killer users 
will find that this is an excellent program to use. Even 
the documentation is well-written, citing many exam- 
ples of viruses and what they do. 

There are other new, potent virus killers available 
around the world. While I can't go into detail about 
them, they do deserve mention: VT (a killer written in 
German), Virus Interceptor (for Workbench 2.x), 
Link Virus Detector. Early Virus Warning, and Find 
'Em All. (Details about contacting their developers are 
contained also in the "Contacts" box.) Try as many of 
these as you can get; if your system has enough mem- 
ory, don't hesitate to run two or three at the same time. 



An excellent all-in-one virus package is The New Su- 
perkillers available from Safe Hex International, which 

contains nearly all the virus programs mentioned in this 
article. (See the sidebar "Virus Rx: Safe I lex" lor details.) 
.Almost all of these killers can be found on many 
BBSs. You can also find them on accredited Regional 
Virus Center BBSs, as well as on commercial networks 
such as BIX. CompuServe, GLnie, and Portal Com- 
munications. In dealing with network downloads, one 
good rule of thumb worth following is to never use a 
virus killer that is more than three months old; it will 
not find new viruses. Aiso keep in mind that these pro- 
grams are either shareware or freeware. If you use 
shareware, send the authors some money to ensure 
that their programs will be regularly updated. 

Virus protection is very simple and does not cost a 
lot of money. Just remember three things: 1) write 
protect your disks, 2) make backups, and 3) use one or 
more current virus checkers. 

There was one virus in 1987. Today there are almost 
300. At this growth rate, it is predicted there will be 
1000 viruses by 1996. Be prepared! ■ 

Jim Macioroivski represents Safe Hex International in the 
US. He distributes "The New Siiperlullers " and other Sill- 
related disks. Contact him at PO liox 724, Port Ricliey, Flori- 
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A continuing series 

of tips, techniques. 

and tricks for 

creating more 

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graphics. 



By Joel Hagen 



Stereo Output 
And Viewing 



IF YOU READ my article on creating 
stereo images for viewing with Haitex 
Resources' X-Specs ("1 + 1 =3(1))!," p. 
30) in this issue, you might wonder 
how you could share those images with 
others who don't own an Amiga or 
LCI) (liquid-crystal display) glasses. In 
fact, there are many inexpensive ways 
you can create and view permanent 
stereo images. This column will ex- 
plore a variety of techniques and 
equipment you might try for an addi- 
tional hardware investment of as little 
as SI. 95. 

To help you in these efforts, you 
should check out a company called 
Reel 3-D Enterprises (PC) Box 2368, 
Culver City, CA 90231; 310/837-2368). 
(When I stumbled on its catalogue, I 
went a little crazy and even bought a 
set of 1 80 stereo View-Master reels on 
Chinese art!) Reel 3-D supplies a won- 
derful array of 3-D photography and 
viewing supplies for the hobbyist. I am 
having a great time discovering ways to 
adapt ibis equipment to Amiga stereo 
images. Printed or photographed in 
the proper format, these can be viewed 
by anyone using one of the many mod- 
els of available viewers. 

Seeing Double 

To make stereo pairs for optical view- 
ers you must create separate left and 
right eye images as described in my 
article. Do not use the "inter-leaved" 
method I outlined for use with LCD 
glasses. Instead, mount 
two images side by side as in the 
accompanying illustration. Viewers 
for such a mounted pair typically 
have a separate lens for each eye that 
independently focuses on the left or 
right picture. The brain merges these 
views into a stereo image. Before 
printing such a pair, the Amiga artist 
must decide on an output medium, 
a size and format, and an appropriate 
viewer. 



High-end output devices you might 
consider are the Polaroid CI-3000 or 
CI-5000 film recorders linked to 
AS DCs Art Department Professional 
to transfer your computer images to 
slide or print film. A pair of standard 
35mm slides can be viewed in stereo 
by simply taping two inexpensive 
hand-held viewers together. Alterna- 
tively, Reel 3-D carries twin 35mm 
viewers ranging in price from S5.95 to 
S34.95. You could also hand mount 
your slide film in any of a number of 
standard 3-D formats such as Realist 
or European. Blank mounts and view- 
ers for these formats are also available 
from Reel 3-D. If a film recorder is 
not in your future, you can send your 
Amiga disks to a service bureau for 
transfer to film. 

A Far more simple, inexpensive way 
For viewing images in stereo is to pur- 
chase a plastic hand-held 3-D prim 
viewer (stock #2018) from Reel 3-D for 
SI. 95. Then, with no further invest- 
ment, you can assemble a stereo pair of 
images side by side on your Amiga 
screen and view them at the 10-inch 
focal distance of this viewer. As you 
might imagine, there are a few princi- 
ples to consider. Your eyes are about 
two-and-one-half-inches apart. Viewing 
a pair of prints (or the computer dis- 
plav) requires then that the centers of 
the actual images be about 2V-'-3" 
apart. Centers separated by a greater 
distance become increasingly difficult 
to resolve. With slides this is not a 
problem, but it does limit the width of 
prints to about three inches. 

An easy way to experiment on the 
computer screen directly is to shrink 
the image pair in a paint or image- 
processing package while you view" it 
until it resolves into stereo. Of course, 
this is really only good for experi- 
ments and quick tests. Even in high 
resolution, the screen pixels are too 
coarse for good detail at this three- 
inch scale. Using some sort of print is 
a much better idea. As an example, I 
have planned the accompanying 
stereo illustrations to have approxi- 
mately 2'/i" centers as they appear on 



48 July 1993 



Viewing images in 3-D stereo can be 

fun— and inexpensive. Here are some techniques for outputting 

stereo pairs for use with optical viewers. 



the page. This is suitable for direct 
viewing with any hand-held or fold- 
ing viewer. 

High-Quality Stereo Output 
I have been having great success using 
ADPro's Prefprinter features and an 
NEC laser printer to produce stereo 
pairs. To try this in high resolution, 
create a 1280x400 page in ADPro by 
setting the [lackdrop loader to that 
size. Into that space load the left 
640x400 image. Load the right image 
using the Composite option, offsetting 
the "x" width by 640. Before priming, 
you wilt probably need to adjust the 
image values. In the Vistal'ro land- 
scape (illustration, top), the Dynamic 
Range Operator analyzed a range of 
values from to 140. For laser print- 
out, I reprocessed that to a range of 40 
to 2'20. I also raised the brightness of 
the image to + 14 and the gamma to 
+2\. Your sellings will vary for each 
image, but this gives you the idea of 
the kind of balancing to explore. 

In Prefprinter, manually set the 
image width lo six inches, keeping the 
aspect ratio locked. This will yield a 
print will) three-inch centers suitable 
for hand-held viewers. If you use a 
folding stereo print viewer thai stands 
on legs over the image, you may need 
lo reduce centers to twe> and a half 
inches. This is a five-inch total image 
width in Prefprinter. Try Floyd dither, 
Density 4 at 300-dpi (dots per inch) 
printer resolution. Experiment with 
your favorite color primer and also 
with desktop-publishing software, 
especially if you have access lo 1200- 
dpi output or higher. Spray mount the 
print to illustration board and then 
trim it to size. 

For best quality prim images, out- 
put to a film recorder using 35mm 
prinl film. Optionally, use any camera 
on a tripod to shoot the screen. A 
little experimentation with camera 
distance will give you just the right 
image size in your developed prims. 




Two sets of lUl ->re printed here, ready tor viewing wllh any 

standard handheld viewer. The lo|i view wm generated in VlstaPro 3.0, while the 
bottom was hand painted in DeluitaPalnt IV. 



I rim and mount them carefully. Do 
all your left/right adjustment in the 
computer to save work at the mount- 
ing phase. 

My favorite stereo apparatus is the 
old Holmes Stereopticon, which can 
be found in antique stores, at yard 
sales, or maybe even in your own 
attic. This meial-and-wood relic of 
the 1800s and early 1900s has glass 
lenses in an elegant eye hood, a slid- 
ing holder for the stereo cards, and a 
folding wood handle. Mount your 
computer-generated images with 
three-inch centers on a 3'/sx7-inch 
card For use in this viewer. The 
anachronism ol viewing incident com- 
puter images on this century-old 



instrument fascinates me. The quality 
is superb. ■ 

Joel Hagen's credits include work in art, 
astronomy, science fiction, and software 
development. Write to him at 10512 
Sawyer, Oakdale, CA 95361. Please 
include a stamped, self-addressed envelope 
for a reply. 




AmigaWorld 49 




Troubleshooting 
In Paradise- 1 

"A nod is as good as a wink 
to a blind bat. " — Monty Python 



By Joel Tessler and Michael Hanish 



WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, there's 
fire, so where there's no smoke, there's 
no . . . Well, maybe in the forest, but not 
necessarily in your video studio. 
Things you can't see run hurt your 
production. But how do you spot these 
unseen dangers, and what can you do 
about them-' This month and next, we 
will look at some common production 
problems. Belter yet, we'll discuss 
possible cures, and the tools and pro- 
cedures necessary for setup and main- 
tenance. Because whether your studio 
is bare-bones small or large and com- 
plex, the rules for troubleshooting and 
setup are basically the same. 

Your first line of defense in the fight 
for video-signal integrity is a properly 
adjusted mouiti >r. This will instantl) 
alert you — subjectively and objective- 
ly — to problems with video levels, for 
example, or with hue (chroma phase). 
Bv contrast, a poorly adjusted monitor 
will sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. 

Highly recommended, though not 
quite mandatory, are a waveform mon- 
itor and vectorscope. They provide the 
only truly accurate means lor monitor- 
ing your video signal and signal path. 
Two products to help with this are 
DPS's Personal Waveform Monitor/ 
Vectorscope ($899), which provides 
both tools on a single internal board 
for the A2000, ASOOO, and A4000, and 
The Monitor {Magni Systems, SI 799), 
a stand-alone external device. 

Before we examine the use of these 
tools, let us first look at some of the 
most basic considerations. 

Round One 

If some variation on this scenario hasn't 

happened to you yet, it will: You are 



performing an edit, when you notice 
that the image on your program moni- 
tor has suddenly gone dark and shaky. 
But then again, it has been a while since 
you look a close look at the monitor, so 
you're not really sure when it began. 
Video, 1 ; Operator, 0. Your move. 

First, round up the usual gang of 
suspects and assure yourself that none 
of them are guilty. Start with cables 
and connectors. They stretch, break. 
come undone, and wear out at the least 
opportune moment — and seemingly by 
themselves. Check each and every 
cable, connector, and adapter. RCA 
connectors are quite capable of pulling 
out of the port slightly and breaking 
the signal path. Be systematic and 
thorough. Check the stress points, just 
behind the connector, and inspect both 
the cable ends and the ports for oxida- 
tion and tarnish. A commercial deoxi- 
dizer/cleaner such as Cramolin can 
woi'k wonders and increase conductivi- 
ty. Immediately replace anything that 
is suspect; you have more important 
things to be concerned about. 

Avoid adapters like the plague. 
Instead, use cables with appropriate 
ends. Ready-made cables with RCA 
plugs on one end and BMC on the 
other, for example, are available from 
video-supply houses such as Markertek 
and Comprehensive. (When purchas- 
ing new equipment, insist that it have 
BNC connectors.) Make sure that the 
cables are not running across or in 
close parallel to any power cords. And 
check every switch and knob: All it 
takes is one nudge to cause trouble. 

Don't be haphazard, though; there is 
an order to this process. To successfully 
track down the cause of a problem in 



the studio, you must start at the begin- 
ning and cam' on until you reach the 
end — of the signal path, that is. You 
have to break the system down to its 
most discrete components, test them 
one by one, and slowly reassemble the 
parts you are absolutely sure of. Re- 
member, there is a reason — however 
elusive or obscure — lor the symptom 
von arc seeing. No question is too dumb 
to ask or part loo trivial to at least con- 
sider. Ask others with similar setups. 
Call the tech-support lines of the equip- 
ment manufacturers. Be persistent. 

If your best efforts yield zilch and 
you are getting nothing done, consider 
the possibility that you're taking your- 
self too seriously. The very moment 
you decide to retire the unit as a boat 
anchor, step back and take a break. 
Tension can cause you to overlook as 
many problems as inattention. 

Ready, Set 

What your grandmother told you is 
true: "An ounce of prevention is worth 
a pound of cure." Or, a few minutes 
devoted to proper setup is worth an 
hour of troubleshooting when there is 
a malfunction. You can avoid many 
problems by setting up properly in the 
first place. 

Through the cables flows the 
lileblood of vour video venture, the 
signal. It simply won't do to have that 
How degraded or slowed in any way. 
Insist on high-quality, shielded video 
cables. Saving some small change on. 
cheaper cables can severely compro- 
mise the video image, introducing all 
soils of unwanted interference patterns. 
Substituting audio for video cables, just 
because they happen to have RCA-type 



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connectors, will severely degrade or 
destroy the signal. Inspect your cables 
frequently For stress points, especially 
just behind the connectors, and imme- 
diately replace any that arc loose. Fig- 
ure out why the} 1 have become stressed 
(often, just the weight of a cable hang- 
ing will do it) and alleviate the cause. 
Pay attention to (he details and do it 
right so that the cabling won't be such a 
likely suspect in future situations. 

As we said before, insist that the 
video connectors on any new piece of 
equipment be BNC-type. These lock 
into place with a twist, do not pull out, 
and provide better conductivity for the 
complex and sensitive composite video 
signal. When you set up initially, and 
whenever you add a new piece of 
equipment, make sure all termination 
(internal and external) is correct. If you 
absolutely must use adapters, be sure 
they fit tightly and cleanly. 

Aside from regular maintenance, the 
most important preventive measure 
you can take is to carefully and 
methodically consider the layout of 
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studio design is ergonomics, or the 
relationship of your work style (in the 
broadest sense) to the physical facts of 
your work space. .After considering 
those demands, factor in cable length. 
In general, you want to keep your 
cables as short as possible, while giving 
your equipment plenty of room to 
breathe. To avoid introducing 
liming/phase problems, keep cables 
from multiple sources the same length. 

When you are actually performing 
the setup, give yourself enough space to 
work, and maintain easy access to the 
rear panels (connectors) of the equip- 
ment. Lay out all the cables (power, 
video, and audio) in their approximate 
places. Make sure the AC lines are well 
separated from the others, and group 
them roughly into bundles of the same 
type. Alleviate an)' weight-related stress 
to the lines by providing support. Then 
make all the necessary phasing and 
timing adjustments (we'll discuss that in 
detail next month), perform an Auto- 
Hue test on your NewTek Video Toast- 
er, and work out on the arrangement a 
bit to make sure you like it. 

When everything is 
satisfactory, dress die 
cables in neat bundles, 
making sure they don't 
hang unsupported or get 
stepped on. Label or color 
code both ends of each 
cable. Then; make a 
schematic of what is con- 
nected to what; at some 
point, you'll be very glad 
you did. If you must slide 
any piece of equipment 
into its own crevice (we 
recommend avoiding this, 
if possible), do it gently, 
being careful not to crimp 
any of the cables in back. 
Keep a mirror and Hash- 
light handy. 

Color Full 

Color bars are an engi- 
neer's way of making sure 
everyone is on the same 
frequency. The two fig- 
ures to the left show full- 
field and SMPTE color 
bars, both of which are 
vital test signals in any 
setup. Each provides well- 
defined bands of electri- 
cal information at specific 
frequencies, which we 
perceive as color. These 
patterns have different 
arrangements of colors 
for different purposes. 



Their most effective use is with a wave- 
form monitor and vectorscope, as we 
will demonstrate next month. 

Full-field bars are arranged with 
white (100 IRE, maximum legal white 
level) on the left, and black (7.5 IRE) 
on the right. If you are adjusting moni- 
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From p. 22. 

DSS8+ Digital 
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hardware improvements and some nice 
touch-tips to its already versatile software 
make DSS8+ one of the best choices 
among eight-bit stereo Amiga samplers. 

Sound Potential 

Two primary problems dogged the 
DSS8. Like other Amiga samplers, in- 
cluding the DSS8+, die DSS8 all aches to 
the parallel port on the back panel of 
the Amiga. Since the knobs to adjust in- 
put gain were located on the older DSS8 
hardware, you had to get to the back of 
your computer to tweak input levels, an 
inconvenient chore in your typically in- 
accessible compute!" setup. 

The solutions to the problem, such as 
an extender cable or a parallel-port 
switching box, threatened to add addi- 
tional noise to your sampling process. 
But the input potentiometers also in- 
creased the threat of noise. Some users 
have reported DSS8 noise problems that 
they attributed to those volume controls 
on the circuit board. That design deci- 
sion is, of course, common to many Ami- 
ga digitizers, including SunRize Indus- 
tries' Perfect Sound and Aegis' Sound 
Master. Even so, the purists, ever on the 
alert for the most insignificant hiss and 
crackle, detected less than pristine re- 
sults in some situations. 

The DSS8+ decisively addresses both 
problems by doing away with diem. Kn- 
cased in clear plastic that exposes the hi- 



tech glamour "guts" of the DSS8+, the 
unit has no adjustment controls of any 
sort, just the parallel-port connector on 
one end and slereo RCA jacks and a mi- 
crophone input on the other. Once 
you've attached vour DSS8+, vou'll nev- 
er have to touch it again, because all ad- 
ditional adjustments are accomplished 
with the DSS software. (Unless, of course, 
you have another parallel-port device, in 
which case you'll need to resolve the prob- 
lem that the DSS8+ has no pass-through. 
To avoid noise, CAT suggests using its 
ioKxtender for the A2000/3000/4000 
rather than a switch box.) 

Slick Samples 

To adjust the input gain, you move soft- 
ware sliders in the DSS sampling soft- 
ware, viewing an on-screen oscilloscope 
to determine when your samples are go- 
ing into clipping. GVP has added an 
Auto-Gain feature that makes the soft- 
ware check out a few seconds of input 
and then automatically set gain. Howev- 
er, when sampling from a source with a 
wide dynamic range, I found that Auto- 
Gain invariably set levels loo high. 

The DSS8+ has a programmable low- 
pass filter that attenuates high -frequen- 
cy sounds during recording. By line-tun- 
ing [he filter's cutoff frequency (from 1 
to 25 KHz), you can avoid the aliasing 
distortion that occurs when incoming 
sound surpasses the frequency response 
of your sampling rate, while still main- 
taining the best possible sound quality. 

The source of the input is also selec- 
table in software: left or right channel, 
stereo, or microphone input. When sam- 
pling in stereo, the DSS8+ hardware 
completes channel selection ahead of the 
Amiga, thereby leaving a little extra 
processor lime free for other things. 

Big Sound, Little Money 

The DSS8+ specs and Features are oth- 
erwise similar to its predecessor: mono 
sampling up to 51 KHz, stereo sampling 
to 42 KHz: full cut/copy/paste editing of 




The DSS8+ control panel. 



samples, as well as setting loop points 
(though the software still doesn't help 
you find zero [joints); real-time oscillo- 
scope and spectrum analysis display 
screens; support for IFF, SONIX, and 
RAW file formats; AREXX support; and 
the Tracker song-sequencing module, 
which lets you use MIDI input to create 
compositions with vour digital samples. 
The DSS8+ is a terrific little package. 
The sound quality is sharp and clean, 
and the software is versatile and easy to 
use. I still may find myself sneaking over 
to Audiomasicr III for a few editing 
touch-tips, but this is, on the whole, one 
of the best-quality and best-buy choices 
in Amiga sampling. 

— Bob Lindstrom 



Professional 
Page 4.0 

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AGA upgrade of popular DTP program. 



With the introduction of the Amiga 
1200 and 4000, software develop- 
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to get AGA versions of our favorite pro- 
grams to market. Programmable screen 
modes and 256 colors on the Workbench 
are great reasons to update and over- 
haul even the best programs. It seems 
only yesterday that version 3.0 of Pro- 
fessional Page was introduced, making a 
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Disk has brought AGA support — along 
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A Few New Genies 

ProPage previously ofFerred genies, bet- 
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of some tedious, repetitive layouts. 4.0 
includes a few new genies in addition to 
those bundled with 3.0. The manual's 
addendum, however, explains the possi- 
bilities of editing genies, so you are not 
limited to the six supplied with ProPage. 



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R e V I E vv s 




AGA compatibility comes to ProPage 
with the release of version 4.0. 

Thanks lo Llie hall-dozen on call, I put 
together the Daily Planet newsletter in 
roughly ten minutes, using the supplied 
tutorial text file and graphics. 

Spiral-bound documentation covering 
virtually every aspect of ProPage makes 
an attractive package, but it would be nice 
if it covered 4.0, not just 2.0. Gold Disk 
simply lifted the docs from 2.0 and added 
an 88-page unindexetl supplement to 
address version 4.0a. 

In creating 4.0, Gold Disk added only 
a few features to those existing in 3.0. 
Like other AGA programs, ProPage 4.0 
automatically opens a 256-color window 
instead of the default 16-color version. 
Text-import fillers haven't changed from 
3.0, but graphic fillers now abound. 
There's support for TIFF, PCX, EPS, 
GIF, and BMP, as well as Adobe Illustra- 
tor and Aldus Freehand EPS files. You 
can now accomplish cross-platform proj- 
ects with relative ease, since there's nan' 
a format ProPage can't handle. 

New Features, Nice Touches 
A nice touch added to the tool bar is a 
notepad that lets you type a note to your- 
self and affix it anywhere on the page. It 
does not show up when you are printing, 
but appears each time you flip to that 
page. I find this feature especially handy 
when making changes to an ad. I just 
place it on the screen and it's there to re- 
fer to when I'm working on the project. 

When you have to supply the labels for 
a mailing list or disk-labeling project, 
ProPage 4.0's page genies make life easy. 
In invoking die page genie for, say, Avery 
Labels, a reference list appears with labels 
for North American and European ver- 
sions, in both laser and dot-matrix for- 
mats. Numbers are a help in ordering the 
correct size of label. Fountain fills in Pro- 
fessional Draw clips now show up both 
on screen and in prim, which was appar- 
ently not the case in previous versions. 

ProPage 4.0 continues to support all of 
Gold Disk's "Professional'' programs. 



Hot-linking to Professional Draw allows 
you to edit structured drawings without 
leaving ProPage, and 4.0 also hot-links to 
its Article Editor and a new Graphics Ed- 
itor for bitmaps. 

The Article Editor is a text editor whose 
sole mission is to easily move text from 
any source so ProPage; it does so without 
a hitch. On the other hand, the Graphics 
Editor is somewhat limited by a lack of 
features. For example, ProPage imports 
six different bitmaps, but the Graphics 
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as ASDG's Art Department Professional. 
Gold Disk knows this, as one of the func- 
tion genies is called ADProI lotLink. 

Boxed In 

Professional Page 4.0 does have its idio- 
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ing a single line. Instead of two endpoints, 
the line is locked up in a box so that you 
cannot stretch or shrink it; rather, you 
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fication. The custom setting in ProPage 
has, however, a maximum zoom of 
400%, which is only marginally accept- 
able for seeing junctions of fine lines. I 
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sor jumps to the upper-left corner of an 
empty box no matter where you click in- 
side the box, the default left-justify. 

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high-resolution mode. Switching be- 
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plays and a second for Amiga resolution) 
is no longer required. 

The Retina is a Zorro II Autocoufig 
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Amiga slot and is ostensibly compatible 
with both the Video Toaster and Opal- 
Vision (according to MacroSystems). Two 
configurations are currently available. 
with either two or four megabytes of Fast 
Page DRAM. The 2MB version offers 
full-overscan 24-bit display, while you'll 
need the 4MB board to accomplish dou- 
ble-buffering animation. You'll also need 
a VGA or 1950/1960 Commodore mon- 
itor. Apparently, MacroSystems is work- 
ing on a 24-bit RGB adapter for owners 
of the Commodore 1084 monitor, but 
details are sketchy. 

System Support 

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ing and sets up the default display 
modes (256 colors. 65,530 colors, or 
16.6 million colors). A list of the most 
common VGA and Commodore moni- 
tors is available. Don't worry if your 
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itor manual and enter the vertical and 
horizontal frequencies. 

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1024x768 using 65,000 colors, and 1280 
xl024 in 256 colors. Usingjust 16 colors, 
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are possible. 

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fectivelv take over the Amiga system. 
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plication, Retina gives the application 
the resolution it asks for — or you can 
specify your own preferred screen reso- 
lutions. You cannot, however, just plug 
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lapse into 24-bit bliss. Before you can 
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about the program beforehand, and this 
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When you first start a program, it ap- 
pears normally on your .Amiga monitor. 
But once you leave the program, you'll 
find thai Retina has recorded I he pro- 
gram's screen name. Bv toggling from 
.Amiga to Retina output on the Retina- 
Emu screen, vou redirect the output to 
the VGA monitor the next time the pro- 
gram is launched. You'll only have to do 
this once for each program on your hard 
disk. .After that, the Retina automatical- 
ly displays the program on the VGA 
monitor. You boot up in Retina mode by 
modifying your startup-sequence or by 
dragging the Retina icon into the WB- 
startup drawer. 

Because the Retina is eqtiipped with 
graphics chips, Workbench performance 
is accelerated dramatically, even in high 
resolution. Users of unaccelerated Ami- 
gas may feel as if they've gotten a boost 
with Workbench running on the Retina. 
Likewise, you can effeetivelv kiss inter- 
lace llicker goodbye. The Retina board, 
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lution, flicker is a real headache, as any- 
one who has ever used Imagines Detail 
editor in interlace mode can attest. Widi 
the Retina, you can pull up a great-look- 
ing 800x600 Imagine display that won't 
give your eyes the jitters. 

Good News Travels Fast 

The Retina's most amazing aspect is one 
that's most uncommon among devices 
of this genre: It works as advertised. Cre- 
ating a fast, good-looking, 1280x102-1 
noninterlaced Workbench screen for un- 
der S600 is no small feat. Retina should 
definitely be a boon not only to artists 
and 3-D animators, but to desktop pub- 
lishers as well. 

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I he card is its ability to layer screens of 
different resolutions. Normally, lor ex- 
ample, you'd have to exit a 24-bil screen 
in order to pull up an eight-bit screen. 
With Retina, you can use hot keys to cy- 
cle through any number of screens with 
different resolutions and color depth. In 
other words, you could have a 24-bit im- 



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age, a 640x400 Workbench screen and a 
300x200 DeluxcPaint screen in memo- 
ry simultaneously. You're limited only 
by the memory on the Retina card. 

Rounding out the programs on disk is 
a 24-bit painting program called VD- 
paint (soon to be replaced with TV- 
paint — release date to be announced) 
and support for ASDG's Art Department 
Professional and Black Belt's Image- 
master. Finally, if you own a V-Lab real- 
time video digitizer, you can grab im- 
ages directly to the Retina and use its 
custom animation routines to produce 
simple, page-dipped, double-buffered 
animations. 

As of this writing, real-time 24-bit an- 
imations aren't possible with 24-bit 
boards, including Retina: don't abandon 
your single-frame controllers. (Some re- 
cently announced boards will change 
this.) MacroSystems is working with sev- 
eral companies to develop animation 
players for Retina. Furthermore, only 
programs that open recognizable 
screens or that are not tied heavily to the 
graphics-chip capability of the Amiga 
will produce displays on the Retina. 

Graphics-intensive games are not the 
Retina's forte, although it gave Sim City 
a different twist, with my VGA monitor 
displaying the Map screen and my Ami- 
ga monitor operating as the Editor 
screen. Games notwithstanding, I en- 
countered no compatibility problems. 
DeluxePaint, Imagine, Videoscape, 
Scenery .Animator, and a host of public- 
domain programs performed without a 
hitch. Caligari, however, is not compat- 
ible with this board, but MacroSystems is 
reportedly looking for a solution. 

Manual Blues 

Low points include a malfunctioning 

hard-disk installation program and a 
poorly written manual. Posing as a Reti- 
na user, I had to rely on technical sup- 
port to get around a couple of problems 
not covered sufficiently in the docu- 
mentation. MacroSystems has subse- 
quently agreed that a rewrite is in order. 
Small complaints aside. Retina is one 
of the most exciting Amiga products to 
appear in recent months. Low-cost 24- 
bit bi-res capability, screen-flicker elim- 
ination, and a faster-lhan-stock Work- 
bench constitutes noteworthy news. Also, 
rumors have il that Impulse's Imagine 
3.0 may directly support the Retina. 
Even if AGA support never arrives for 
the 2000 and 3000, the Retina 24-bit dis- 
play card provides an alternative. 

—John Ryan 



MBX-1200Z 

MicroBotics 

Unpopulated: $149; 

w ( Real-time clock: S175; 

w/14 MHz 68881 FPU and 

real-time clock: S215. 



A1200. 
Installation: Easy. 



FPU) 32-bit memory card with 
real-time clock for A1200. 



"Woti've just unpacked your new AGA- 
I equipped Amiga 1200, installed a few 
graphics programs, copied over a few 
OS 3.0-compatible display utilities, and 
generally prepped both yourself and 
your machine to lapse into MAM-8 bliss. 
Not so fast, 256,000-color fans: You 
probably won't to be able to run appli- 
cations on your slock 1MB A1200, and 
you'll run dangerously low on RAM dis- 
playing photographic-quality graphics. 

Quick-'n'-Easy Fix 

It's a rare Amiga enthusiast who hasn't 
heard of the company of longstanding 
accelerator fame called MicroBotics. 
These enteiprising Amiga folks were the 
first on the scene with a Motorola 68881 
Floating Point Unit (FPU) RAM ex- 
pander card for the A1200— the MBX- 
1 200. An FPU (as any Computer Science 
101 student should know) significantly 
reduces the computation times the com- 
puter requires for accomplishing math- 
ematical operations. With the recent re- 
lease of the battery-backed, real-time 
clock-equipped MBX-1200z, MicroBot- 
ics' RAM expander has moved to the 
forefront of the increasingly competitive 
A 1200 RAM market. 

Sold with an empty 72-pin, 32-bit 
SIMM expansion slot (same as those on 
the A4000's motherboard), and either a 
68881 or 68882 FPU (math chip and crys- 
tal) upgrade kit, the MBX-1200z is de- 
signed to add 1MB, 2MB, 4MB, or 8MB 
of 32-bit fast RAM to your A 1 200. You 
can buy an unpopulated MBX-1200z, in- 
stall your own 80ns (there's no speed ad- 
vantage with 70ns or 60ns) SIMM mod- 
ule, and set a jumper on the board to 
activate the RAM. 

Unlike its brawny big brother, the 
A4000, the A1200 has no 100-pin Zorro 
expansion slots, but it does — like the 
A500 — offer a mini-expansion bay be- 
neath the keyboard. To install the MBX- 
1200z, you simply flip the computer 
over, pop off the bay door, and careful- 
ly work the card side-to-side until it pops 
into place. Put the bay cover in place, 



plug in all the respective cables, and 
you're ready to fly. 

Far and Wide 

With a 4MB MBX-1200z where it be- 
longs, and an IBM Super VGA monitor 
sitting pretty next to AmigaWorld's test- 
bed 52MB IDE hard disk-equipped 
A 1200, I was cooking in about one 
minute flat. While the IBM monitor is 
physically smaller than my A4000's 
Commodore 1960, the display was a vir- 
tual replica. Syslnfo and AIBB tests 
don't reflect the 32-bit wide RAM, 
68881 FPU, and '020 performance of 
the A 1200. Suffice lo say, an eight-col- 
or pattern Workbench made it behave 
on a par with, for example, a 128-color 
full-screen backdrop Workbench on an 
A4000/040. Translation: It's fast, but it 
hardly qualifies for blistering speed. 

The additional 4MB, coupled with a 
copy of the freely distributable 3.0-com- 
patible program ViewTek 1 .04, allowed 
me to load and display on the A1200 
graphics-intensive IIAM-8, JPEG, and 
IFF-24 images copied from my A4000. 
Large animations (more than 3MB) 
were, as I fully expected, a problem. 
With the simple upgrade to an 8MB 
SIMM, and allowing for a full megabyte 
of RAM to accommodate the OS, Work- 




The MBX 1200z adds up to 8MB of 32-bit 
RAM to the A1 200. 

bench, and display software, the A1200 
could no doubt handle a 7MB hi-rcs an- 
imation with aplomb. 

Is the MBX-I200z a good invest- 
ment? If you're satisfied with the 
Al 200's overall performance or haven't 
the spare cash to invest in an '030 ac- 
celerator for the machine, the answer is 
a definite yes. Be prepared, however, 
to spend fewer evenings watching 
sports... and more enjoying hi-res im- 
ages on vour A1200. 

—Tim Walsh 



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SQ5110C 

Removable-Cartridge 
Disk Drive 

Syquest, S650 (Approximately — 
see deafer for configuration and pricing) 

All Amiga models. 

SCSI port, internal or external. 

Installation: Easy. 



Removable media hard-disk drive. 



If you've compressed, archived, and 
generally crammed every lasl byte yon 
could into your hard disk, only to find 
you still need more storage space, how 
big should your next drive be? 100MB? 
200MB? Before you end up with anoth- 
er hard disk that's full before its time, 
you might want to consider an alterna- 
tive to the traditional lixed disk — a re- 
movable-cartridge Syquest disk drive. 

Versatile? You Bet. 
Fast? "Well . . . 

Syquest cartridges are the removable me- 
dia of choice for the Amiga. Sturdy and 
reliable, they're easily integrated into 
SCSI-equipped machines. While single- 
sized Syquest drives have been media fix- 
tures for years, the new SQ5 1 1 OC boasts 
the ability to handle two cartridge sizes — 
44- and S8-megabyte. If you already use 
the lower-density cartridges and have 
been longing to use the 88MB size, the 
51 IOC might be just the ticket. 

With an advertised access speed of 20 
ins, the 51 10C is obviously not going to 
set any records in saving and loading 
your data, although it does produce re- 
spectable performance. Using the freely 
distributable program Syslnib, I found 
the drive reads about ,902MB/sec. Com- 
pare that to the A4000's IDE drive 
(1.067MB/sec) and the A3000's SCSI 
(.913MB/sec), and you'll see that the 
Syquest's performance differs little from 
most current hard drives. 

The user s manual overindulges in fine 
print, but most of it is unnecessary for the 
average user. Installation is a snap. While 
the stock A4000 lacks the needed SCSI 
controller, the 5 HOC attached quickly to 
mine via a Wordsync controller, using 
either internal or external connections. 
It even worked fine connected to my 
A500's GVP Impact Series II. 

The internal version of the 5 1 1 0C mea- 
sures 5.75x1 .63x8 inches. When encased 
in an external enclosure, the drive ex- 
pands to roughly a Webster's Dictionary 
size of 9.75x2.4x10.4 inches. Be lore- 



warned, however, that even the smaller 
internal versions of both the new 51 IOC 
and the older 51 10 won't fit inside the 
A 4000's housing. Consequently, tile 
drive is left perched atop the computer, 
leaving the 5.25-inch bay vacant for oth- 
er devices, such as a Bridge-board or an- 
other internal drive. As a consolidation, 
the case is colored in soft beige, to nicety 
complement the attractive A4000. 

Cleared for Take-off 

To use the drive, simply pop either a 
44MB or 88MB Syquest cartridge in the 
door and sit light for the recommended 
I I seconds as the drive spins up to lull 
speed. You'll know when the time has 
clasped, as a light on the front of the 
drive turns from red to green. To swap 
cartridges, you disengage the mecha- 
nism with a button on the front of the 
drive, which then automatically spins 
down. You can then remove the car- 
tridge by pulling on a mechanical lever. 

To the uninitiated, the sequence is not 
without some small drama. Pulling on 
the aforementioned release lever quick- 
ly thrusts the Syquest cartridge partially 
OUt of the 51 IOC. Caught off guard, you 
expect to see your precious cartridge 
continue its flight directly to the floor. 
Not to worry; it always stops halfway out. 

To use more than one cartridge per 
session, be sure that your SCSI controller 
recognizes removable media. Standard 
controllers — such as the Commodore 
2091 — work well, while it's hit-or-miss 
with older (pre-1990) hard-drive con- 
trollers. The 51 10C formats, reads, and 
writes both 88MB and 44MB cartridges 
without a hitch, but saddled with my 
Wordsync controller, my A4000 ac- 
knowledged only the size of the first car- 
tridge placed in the 51 IOC. Replacing 
an 88MB drive with a 44 MB one, or vice- 
versa, resulted in the infamous "Not a 
DOS Disk" error. 

I suspect my Wordsync controller 
didn't recognize the 51 IOC's dual-for- 
mal capability. Once configured to read 
88MB cartridges, the 5 HOC had no 
trouble reading those made on earlier 
Syquest units, such as my 88MB 5110. 
Aside from the Wordsync flaw, opera- 
tion was smooth, seamless, and elegant. 

A Need to Feed 

If you've outgrown your primary hard 
disk, the 51 10C can look might)- attrac- 
tive. Storage space is limited only by the 
number of cartridges you purchase. An 
initial investment in a 44MB cartridge 
lightens the coffers by about S85, while 
an 88MB cartridge costs roughly SI 20. 
The per-megabyte cost, however, drops 
with the purchase of each additional car- 



tridge, eventually leveling out at about 
S 1 per megabyte. 

The 51 10C is ideal for video applica- 
tions and gives ordinary data storage a 
new twist, as moving huge graphic, 
sound, and data files from one Amiga to 
another becomes almost too easy. You 
won't ever want lo use floppies for back- 
up again, for all of your hard drive's 
most important contents will fit on a car- 
tridge or two. 

Perhaps the strongest argument in 
51 IOC's favor is its compatibility with 
both 44MB and 88MB cartridge for- 
mats. An added bonus is its ability to 
read MS-DOS-formatted Syquest car- 
tridges via Consultron's CrossDOS (in- 
cluded with AmigaDOS 2. 1 and higher). 
Lastly, if you develop software or use 
NewTek's Toaster, 44MB bootable car- 
tridges lor the 51 10C allow you to cre- 
ate custom startup configurations. 

Not everyone needs a Syquest. If you 
don't own a hard disk, and are thinking 
of using a Syquest as a primary storage 
medium, think again. While booting 
from a Syquest is remarkably conve- 
nient, you may find yourself cartridge 
swapping with the unit as if it were an 
enormous floppy drive. However, if 
you're shopping for a second or third 
hard drive, or a standard Syquest, give 
ihe dual-format Syquest 5 1 1 0C some se- 
rious consideration. 

— Dave Johnson 



Pro-Board 3.0 

Prolific, S399. 

All Amiga models. 
Hard-drive installable. 
Not copy protected. 
Accelerator compatible. 
1.3/2.0/3.0 compatible. 



Printed-circu it-board design 
software. 



Prolific has upgraded its PCB-making 
package, Pro-Board 3.0, to meet the 
increasingly demanding needs of those 
who create circuit boards. 

The three-disk 3.0 (3.03 at present) 
package consists of four separate pro- 
grams: Pro-Board (the PCB editor), Pro- 
Lib (which creates shapes fin' PC :B layout), 
Pro-Plot (a print and plot generator), and 
Pro-Drill (for automated drilling of holes 
in a PCB). 

Eventhing but Pro-Drill auto-installs 
on your hard disk. Prolific recommends 



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1.5MB of RAM and Workbench 1.3 or 
2.x. Pro-Board uses a custom screen, 
most of which is available for operations. 
Text gadgets called "Intelligent Func- 
tion Keys," or IFKs, line the bottom of 
the screen and change depending on 
your current section. The mouse or a 
function key activates the related func- 
tion or enters a new IFK "level," and the 
Escape key cancels operations or moves 
up one IFK level. 

You configure Pro-Board with IFK- 
Config, which specifies your data, li- 
braries, plotters, and drill-file format. 
Because all the Prolific tools read the 
same initialization data (where appro- 
priate), this need be done only within 
the main program. 

Trial Run 

To start a board, select IFK-New. A 
menu appears with various options, in- 
cluding Fine-Line mode for routing two 
traces between 0.100-spaced pins. The 
program supports various sizing rules, 
automatic power and ground-plane op- 
tions, up to 16 eight-signal layers, and 
large PCBs. 

Pro-Board uses the Calay netlist for- 
mat. My first test board was a simple dy- 
namic memory board with sixteen 28-pin 
surface-mount DRAM chips and two 
0.050-pitch edge connectors. After I spec- 
ified the PCB and netlist names, Pro- 
Board prompted me to go ahead without 
a parts list. (A parts list tells Pro-Board 
which shapes to use for each component. 
I selected IFK-FootP. which allowed me to 
specify a shape for each part.) 

Pro-Board automatically makes DIP, 
SIP, and similar simple pans, which you 
can enter directly. Complex shapes are 
called out by Shape filename in the 
parts list, and you create Shape files with 
the Pro-Lib utility. Once you've entered 
all the parts, you get down to business 
creating a PCB. 

Guided by a coordinate display, I began 
drawing my PCB outline by laying down 
a line. (You can also type coordinates 
nither than draw.) Next, I placed the edge 
connectors, "glued" them in place, and 
proceeded with autoplacement. With a lit- 
tle tweaking, Pro-Board generated a nice, 
regular pattern of DRAMs. 

I then used lFK-R-Rule to set the rout- 
ing rule. A maze algorithm is always a 
single-layer router, while a channel al- 
gorithm can run on one or two layers. 
Several options determine how it will 
deal with vias — the connectors between 
PCB layers. Some experimentation may 
be necessary at this point: I didn't care 



for the results of the router's defaults, so 
I changed some settings. 

The manual isn't very professional 
and is unclear at points. It stales that the 
routing "speed" is 1 for best quality, 5 for 
fastest, but the on-line documentation 
claims the opposite. Mistakes forgiven, I 
found it useful. 

Autorouting is not a fast process, and 
this holds true with Pro-Board. Even 
with the "better" settings and running 
on my '040-equipped Amiga, Pro-Board 
finished less than half my board in an 
hour. The program is clever about get- 
ting to the pins of a device, which are 
only on one side, but it can't easily trace 
between the pins of most SMT devices. 
After substituting DIPs for surface- 
mount parts, the board routed in about 
seven minutes. 

When putting a trace down, a router 
cannot always anticipate just where an- 
other trace may be needed. To handle 
this, Pro-Board's "rip-up" option will re- 
move and reroute one trace and position 
another for a better layout. (Pro-Board 
does not employ sophisticated "push- 
and-shove" techniques, which push aside 
existing traces to let new ones through.) 

While Pro-Board offers no optimiz- 
ing — and its lavouts cannot match those 
of professional systems — it does a better 
job than previous routers. With a tight 
surface-mount design, its autorouter can 
help in spots, although il cannot do 
much on a global level. For boards with 
more room, and given the time, vou can 
route to completion in due course. 

In addition to automatic features, Pro- 
Board 3.0 has improved manual place 
and route options, which are helpful for 
specific-placement needs and manual 
optimizations. 

A More Complex Board 

Using Pro-Board 2.0, I had designed a 
two-layer SCSI/DRAM board in about two 
weeks' worth of evenings. I figured this 
would be a good test for Pro-Board 3.0. 

I set this up as a four-layer board (for 
less complexity), placing and "gluing" a 
few components. 1 worked out a grid, 
then decided to break my board up into 
UK-Group sections and attempt some 
autoplacement. Initially, the program 
took a long time, but as I worked with 
the placer and individual groups, a bet- 
ter layout materialized. I put in some 
IFK-Forbid zones and increased the grid 
size to create a decent board. Complete 
autoplacement was Hawed: I discovered 
that the program made some bad deci- 
sions. After additional hand tweaking, I 
got an acceptable placement, 

I started the autorouter, and after 
about 10 hours, it had routed 494 out of 



567 nets. To clean up some traces before 
more autorouting, I put 3.0's manual 
routing capabilities to the test, which al- 
lowed for easy adjustments. I think 3.0's 
manual enhancements alone make the 
upgrade worthwhile, though I would like 
to see a "zoom-in" mode for fine work. 
Overall. Pro-Board did a nice job, and in 
one day the board was completed. 

The Rest of the Package 

Unlike the integrated librarian in 2.0, 
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gle units. It can deal with 25-mil or 20-mil 
grids, and you can enter parts taumeri- 
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or surface-mount type pads; the latter can 
be on either side of the PCB. You can en- 
ter lines, circles, boxes, and text inde- 
pendently of pins on some or all of the 
various layers in the shape. 

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or Gerber format; you can also adjust 
apertures for the Gerber photoplotter. 
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recognition of several specific HPGL- 
and Gerber-compatible plotters, It also 
produces prints on a Preferences-sup- 
ported printer, though they're not very 
good; PostScript support would be an 
improvement. 

PCB makers charge for "drill tapes" if 
they are not supplied. Thankfully, Pro- 
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dard formats: True-Drill and, by way of 
a conversion program, Fxcellon. You 
can adjust some drilling details from 
within the software. 

A Qualified Thumbs-Up 

In the autorouter, I got a single Enforcer 
hit after selecting Re-Route. It appeared 
to be a consistent, though not trouble- 
some woe. From the IFK-Auto-R level, 
though, I got a severe crash while man- 
ually deleting part of a routed net: Pro- 
Board locked up and a series of Enforcer 
hits resulted. A similar problem occurred 
a few times during routing. At other 
times, Pro-Board locked up in automat- 
ic and manual modes, 

These bugs make it hard for me to 
recommend the program for commer- 
cial work, at least in its present state. Pro- 
lific maintains a support conference on 
the Portal network, however, and is 
working to solve these problems. 

Still, Pro-Board 3.0 is the best PCB 
program for the Amiga, and a worthy 
competitor for anything on the IBM-PC 
or Mac at a comparable price. It'll no 
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BACK FN 1986, Bard's Tale 
was one of a handful of games 
dial made the Amiga seem special. The medieval theme mu- 
sic for this elemental role-playing game was lovely; I'd some- 
times turn on the game just to listen to it. The graphics had a 
silveiy edge, and the world beyond the veil of torchlight was 
forbidding. I held my breath every time I opened a door. 

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handed the tools to build our own Bard's Tales. Bard's Tale 
Construction Set (Interplay. $49.95) is a system — the first of 
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albeit in a nostalgic sort of way. 

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for putting the games together and testing the results. 

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kit, and, for the most part, this one is easy to use. You can pro- 
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map-maker lets you place wall tiles from an overhead view in 
one window and immediately see the results in 3-D in anoth- 
er. A new critter can be rang up by setting 16 parameters — 
most of them intuitive for those familiar with RFC rules — and 




Role your own 3-D RPG with Bard's Tale Construction Set. 

attaching one of the built-in animated character graphics 
(which often are delightful) or importing one of your own. 

The toughest part is creating "specials" — that is, the string of 
commands touched off (sometimes invisibly) when a party moves 
into a given square. The)' may range from atmospheric text mes- 
sages and traps to puzzle pieces and story branches, and it's from 
these that a BTCS-built game draws much of its character. 

Even here, where you might expect Interplay to slip in some 
programming, BTCS still feels more like a construction set 
than a programming tool. Each special consists of up to 20 seg- 
ments written in what's essentially a vastly simplified version 
of BASIC. It's easy to learn — each segment consisting either 
of an action (DO) or a set of conditions and consequences (IF 



Level Two of Shadow of the 
Beast III tPsygnasis] starts off in 
more puzzling fashion. Bypass the 
broken-down battering ram for the 
time being, and push right until you 
find a switch at the moat's edge. It 
lowers the drawbridge, beyond 
which you'll find the ram's missing 
wheel. Push it back to the ram, 
where it will take its proper place, 
then push the ram right to a closed 
door. The battering ram will open 
the door on its own; all you need 
do is position yourself near the 
front to avoid the fireballs. 

Once in, you'll eventually come 
to another charming contraption: a 
tilted trampoline that makes a 



CRIB NOTES By Peter Olafson 



falling train of chromed balls very 
difficult to dodge. It's fun to watch, 
but blast it anyway — it's not a part 
of a puzzle — and continue right un- 
til you come to a pair of trapdoors. 
Stepping an the right-hand one 
opens the left-hand, releasing a 
swarm of bees. Shoot 'em and col- 
lect the gold. 

This also lets you get down into 
their hole and take aim at the trig- 
ger unlocking the right-hand trap- 
door. Step on it afterward, and 
you'll spill down a tube into an ap- 
parently exit-free room. Hitting the 



switch on the left wall — you can't 
reach the right one — starts filling 
the room with water. Great. You're 
going to drown. 

Not so fast. Before you even hit 
the switch, investigate the little an- 
techamber to the right and push 
the table there back into the switch 
room. Turn on the water, jump on 
the table, and float up to hit the 
switch on the right wall — this 
drains the room via the door at the 
right-end of the antechamber. Once 
the water level drops, head right, 
get the gold, and go up the ladder. 



(The water to the right is impass- 
able at this stage. | 

Lots of folks are getting stuck 
here — I suspect because this is not 
a one-step puzzle. First, push the 
table you'll find here down the 
shaft to the right. (Tables take a 
beating in this game.) Shoot the 
critter who's throwing barrels 
down the shaft — duck to prevent 
him from hitting you — and hop 
over the gap and push the big 
"Fragile" crate after the table. Now, 
hop back, descend the ladder, and 
blast the crate. The floating debris 
will give you something to walk on 
when you head right again. 

Fall into the first pit you reach. 



A— Wow! Exquisite. A must for your games library. C— Meets expectations. Good, solid, performer. 

B— Great fun. Plenty of entertainment value here. D— Disappointing. Lots of room for improvement. 

F — A real stinker. Don't waste your time. 
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X, THEN Y, ELSE Z) — and ihe ability to point-and-click on a 
scrolling list of choices makes it feel all the easier. 

Beyond that, Interplay has made some sensible moves here 
to broaden its held of (ire. Map files appear fully compatible 
between platforms {BTCS is a 64-coIor port from the IBM ver- 
sion). Games created with BTCS run without benefit of the 
master program, so you can share your masterpiece with the 
world. Source files for any game can be reduced to ASCII for 
easy printing or viewing. 

One cautionary note: The ease of use is deceptive, and cre- 
ating a BTCS game is not a small project. That may be why, go- 
ing on two years after the IBM version's release, there are still 
just two BTCS games up on the nets: Dragonport (which you 
can find in the Gamer's Forum on CompuServe) and Selene (in 
the IBM Forum on GEnie). I'm working on my own — Within (lie 
Walls of Astia Carol) — and have gotten much farther along in 
much less time than under Visionary and Virtual Reality Studio. 

All is not quite sweetness and light in Skara Brae, however. 
While BTCS does what it does well, it's also very limited in 
some respects. For one thing, while the quality of the graph- 
ics has recovered somewhat from the blight of Electronic Ails' 
BT III — Interplay did the first two Amiga Bard's Tales — there 
isn't nearly enough variety. Just four sets of wall "tiles" are 
available (one for the wilderness, one for the surface city, and 
two for dungeons), with only a handful of tiles for each and no 
way to mix and match between the sets. 

Hence, every city you design looks more or less like a 
Sahara Desert ruin, and even' section of countryside looks like 
ever) - other section. At the very least, the program could use 
a separate tile set of special locations. (You can import your 
own DeluxePaint artwork and also create a custom title screen. 
But I'm a grade-school level artist at best, and I was counting 
on BTCS to provide the visuals.) 

As much thought as must have gone into the specials editor, 
it could have been made even easier to use by incorporating full- 
screen scrolling text (rather than the two- or three-word lines it 
permits); macros; alphabetizing the many options to make them 
easier to find; or customizing the menus to allow repeated easy 
selection of the same command. The documentation here is es- 
pecially skimpy: the program demands a little book, rather than 
this 42-page pamphlet. I had to sort out for myself what the 
local and global flags did, and 1 never did find how to insert a 
command within an existing special. 

Finally. BTCS offers only the same old Bard's Tale, with all 
its limitations: square-by-square movement, no ground graph- 
ics in the out-of-doors regions, combat up the wa/oo, basic 
character interaction, no option to divide up a party, and so 
on. 1 know this sounds a bit like yelling at the dog for drink- 



ing out of puddles and growling at visitors — in short, for just 
being a dog — but it's not 1986 any more. We're beginning to 
see RPGs with free-scrolling movement, like U.S. Gold's Leg- 
ends of Valour (reviewed below) and Thalion's Ambermoon, 
and individually controlled characters, as in Psygnosis' Hired 
Gun and Domark's Shadowlands. And in that environment. 
Bard's Tale just doesn't cut it. 

Don't get me wrong. I'm glad that Interplay has made the 
game engine accessible, and I think we'll all have some fun with 
this friendly system before it's finally played out. But BTCS 
shares the basic problem of every design system reduced to a 
commercial product: By the time it's old enough that new 
games under the system are no longer worthwhile, it's old 
enough that you're unlikely to be enchanted with the results. 



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mapped, role-playing game for the Amiga, and while it has a 
few obvious kinks, it's sure to give pleasure to those who've lust- 
ed hopelessly after similar IBM games like Ultima Under- 
world and Wolienstein 3-D. 

Hie movement isn't square-by-square, as has long been the 
custom in games from Bard's Tale to Black Crypt, but a con- 
tinuous How — similar to that in filled-polygon adventure games 
like Cy hereon III — and the faster the Amiga, the smoother the 
flow. It feels less like being beholden to the limits of a game sys- 
tem, and more like moving through an actual place. 

This particular place is the capacious town of Mitteldorf. It's 
enjoyably huge, both above and below ground — buildings of- 
ten have second stories and, uh, expansive cellars — and that 
hugeness alone goes a long way. It'll take some time before you 
learn the lay of the land. There are tourist attractions (a zoo 
complete with pacing creatures) and hidden and clifftcull-to- 
reacli places. There are jobs that will earn you a meager liv- 
ing — typically ferrying an item between the shops. There are 
guilds to join, quests to undertake, and spells to cast. Don't be 
loo macho to ask directions: There are tons of folks to meet 
and greet walking by in 3-D, and certain intersections at cer- 
tain limes of the day are as busy as any small-town Main Street. 

Initially, LOV may remind you of Alternate Reality in that 
the basic object is survival: filling your tummy, getting a good 
night's sleep, and avoiding the depredations of nasties. How- 

Conlinued on p. 82. 



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Jump over the barrel and the pit af- 
ter it, and lay waste the critter play- 
ing with the levers that control the 
crane. (Don't stand in one spot, 
though, while doing so, or you'll 
quickly get nailed by the machine; 
move quickly right and left, getting 
in as many shots as possible at 
point-blank range before the crane 
reaches you. The operator will take 
a fair amount of damage before giv- 
ing up the ghost.) 

From here, you can go in two di- 



rections, and it doesn't seem to 
make a difference which you do first. 
The "up" ladder leads to the con- 
frontation with the inevitable end- 
of-level guardian. He's headless, so 
be a pain in the neck instead — he's 
vulnerable there when he's about to 
swing at you — and be sure to collect 
the spiked ball and the gold caches 
from both right and left afterward. 
You shouldn't have much trouble 
avoiding a swinging ball that blocks 
the path on the far left. 

Notice something odd here? Os- 
tensibly, you've finished the level, 
killed off the Beast Jr. ...and yet. 



you don't seem to be done. There's 
no obvious exit, which you must 
create for yourself, using the crane 
and a certain barrel. It's a bit com- 
plicated and unforgiving, so take it 
nice and slow. 

The barrel's located near the pit 
you jumped over just before you 
happened on the crane operator. 
Head back that way, push it to the 
edge of the shaft, and use the crane 
controls to move it to the right- 
hand side of the conveyor belt. (The 
top lever controls the claw, the 
middle moves it right and left, and 
the bottom moves it up and down.) 



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wall to close it. [However, just 
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alone, and keep the right-hand 
door open. You want to get out, 
right?) Back upstairs, jump into the 
barrel, shoot the switch to the 
right, and quickly pull down on the 
joystick to close yourself in. 

Then, wait it out. Once the barrel 
comes to a halt, jump out and head 
left. Shades of The Hobbit. You're out 
of Level Two and Fort Dourmoor, 
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ever, there's much more to do, and you'll eventually realize 
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supreme quest to perform. 

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amiss in Legends of Valour's quaint town of Mitteldorf. 

ings, hut otit of them, and even at a distance. If you're upstairs, 
that means a second-story view. (Shame there's no way to look 
up and down, though.) 

However, many of the ideas in play here haven't been ful- 
lv developed, and nothing else in the game is up to the lev- 
el of the splendid freedom of movement. For instance, char- 
acter interaction is by menu and painfully limited. Combat 
is likewise a set-piece affair and downright chill. It's easy to 
get arrested for not doing anything in particular, and the 
automapping system doesn't save your progress from dun- 
geon visit to dungeon visit. 

Moreover, LOV doesn't run ideally under all configura- 
tions — and under some (like 1.2) doesn't seem to run at all. 
Based on mv testing. I can recommend the game only to those 
with a 1.3 ECS machine, a 16 MHz 3000 (the 25 MHz is rather 
too fast), or a 1200, and I'd recommend a hard disk as well, 
or at the very least a second floppy drive. 

Legends of Valour is far from perfect. But its charm is un- 
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Dune 



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t played Dune (Virgin, S59.95) 
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was done. That's strange because, besides the sumptuous colors, supple 
animations, and a beguiling point-and-click interface, this struggle for con- 
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tile. It's easily one of the most stylish games to emerge this year, but I 
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MegaFortress: 
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Sniff. This second in the series of 
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fering from Three-Sixty. Like Operation Sledgehammer before it, SkyMas- 
ter consists of 20-plus new missions for this vived-up B-52 bomber — these 
set over North Korea {which is plotting an invasion of its southern neigh- 
bor) and the Philippines (which has been invaded by China). 

Ah, those old Red devils just don't let up, do they? SkyMaster is gener- 
ally as solid a creation as its predecessors and properly plugged in to the 
parent game's unique qualities. (It's a flight sim that isn't exactly a flight 
sim.) And the campaign to knock out a North Korean nuke project has a 
nice currentness. 

But the Philippines campaign (drawn from Dale Brown's novel. Sky- 
masters) just seems silly. They didn't have to go out on Brown's limb to 
find trouble spots; Yugoslavia would have been a much better setting. The 
cut-rate 21 -page manual is woeful compared to Sledgehammer's. I suppose 
half a loaf is better than none, but I'm still hungry. 



50 Great Games 



1.2/1.3 • 



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Well, that's stretching it a bit, innit? 
How about "10 Good Games, 15 Ordi- 
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this three-disk compilation of public- 
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Hollyware) is a mere-pennies-per-game-m'boy bargain. But how many 
maze, Qix, and Othello variations can you play before you begin to act peev- 
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Nice to see a handful of surprisingly fair-haired or just atypical games — 
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But monotony and datedness — and an almost total absence of docs — 
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It and 6S8 Attack Sub on my shelf. Beware: Only 30 of the 50 are said to 
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Gearworks 

Like a lot of puzzle games. Gear- 
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Vou mount gears of various sizes on pegs with a view to setting in mo- 
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new gears are introduced one at a time, as in a certain falling-block game.) 
This is a sizing problem all by itself, and you also have to contend with an 
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off pegs. 

I wouldn't have minded a few more levels — there are about a dozen of 
them, each with multiple segments — and gradual introduction of features, 
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There's nothing particularly dashing about that in and of itself. Digital 
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with simultaneous play by two human players — and it's a wonder that, with 
so many good PD and shareware Breakout clones (MegaBall, for instance), 
folks keep pumping these things out. 

Here's the rub: It's the first Breakout I've seen that supports modem 
and null-modem play. No computer will ever play the angles as cleverly 
as another person, and if anything's going to make this old saw sing, 
that's it. 



OXYD 

Here's the reason this column was I 
late. Oxyd {Dongleware, S4 disk, S39 
codebook) is an exquisite puzzle game 
of a sort we don't see very often. It not 
only nicely fills the gap left by games like Mindroll, Night Dawn, and Slid- 
ers, but it'll also make you forget 'em (if you haven't already). 

In basic terms, it's an ambitious Concentration in which you roll a little 
black ball around a landscape knocking it against blocks and seeing what 
color circle turns up. Once you've matched up all the blocks in a level, you 
move to the next. 

Color matching is but a tiny fraction of Oxyd's challenge. The real game 
is getting the ball to the blocks at all. You'll have to manage an inventory 
of useful objects and deal with quicksand, movable walls, lasers and 
bridges (and the buttons to turn 'em off and on), bombs, missing floor tiles, 
gravity-fed speed — all to charming graphic and sonic effects. 

The end stays the same but the means keep changing on you — and al- 
ways in some stylish, interesting way — and by the time I reached Level 9, 
1 had no idea what to expect next ... and couldn't wait to see it. That's a 
wonderful quality in a game. 



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UMS II: Planet 
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1.2/1.3 • 



Hard-drive installable. 
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It's a shame that Planet Editor [In- 
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wasn't available two years ago, when 
it might have appealed to more than the already converted. If you put Uni- 
versal Military Simulator II aside when you discovered you couldn't grow 
your own worlds, now's the time to pick it up again. For when combined 
with the editor — at once astonishingly thorough and surprisingly easy to 
use— UMS II reveals its true colors as a real piece of work (albeit a des- 
perately slow one on unaccelerated machines). I had the sense while 
moving through its menus and windows that there wasn't anything I 
couldn't do, and that's what a game editor should be. 



Espana: The Games '92 



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I can't imagine anyone giving a hoot 
about The Games '92 (Ocean, $39.95) at 
this late date. If you're going to do an 
Olympics game with a sizable database 
of maps and background, put it out in some semblance of proximity to the 
Olympics when we're still in rah-rah mode — not the following February 
when we're thinking about baseball. 

The events themselves are plentiful— I count 29 — but it takes way too 
long to wend your way through the game system to get to 'em. And when 
you get there, you're not rewarded with glossy, high-end stuff, as in 
ReadySoft's International Sports Challenge, but crude, done-in-my-Mom's- 
basement samples and drab graphics. Everything looks coated with dust, 
and when you realize that this one has been sitting around since last sum- 
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IS YOUR 1 MB AGNUS AND COMPUTER WORKING PERFECTLY? 

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• C64 Commodore computer service manuals $17.95 

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• A500 Commodore computer service manuals $17.95 

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The Amiga Troubleshooter is a simple, east-to-use symptomatic guide 

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The AMIGA TROUBLESHOOTER by Wilcom Australia takes you through logical steps 
leading you directly to the source of your problem in seconds. Over ninety percent of 
Amiga problems are readily fixed by simple substitution of integrated circuits (ICs) in 
existing plug-in sockets. The novice as well as Ihe experienced technician will find il 
simple to use. No other tools or equipment are needed. 

Developed by a group of Amiga Technicians, the AMIGA TROUBLESHOOTER 
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Don't be misled by Ihe price This is a Irue Amiga diagnostic tool that performs well, 
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AN INEXPENSIVE DIAGNOSTIC ANALYZER THAT WORKS ON ALL AMIGAS 

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A complete diagnostic hardware and soltware analyzer (uses point and click software 
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85% to 90% of Ihe problems presented to service centers are found with this analyzer. 
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The power supply provided with the A600/ Al 200 cannot 
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voltages worldwide SB4.95 

• A2D00 300 Watt: The Biglool 2000 by Micro RSO is an 
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• Special 300 Walt Test Bench: External power supply has 
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supply $169,95 

• A2O00 HO/220 VAC (U.S./U.K.) Commodore 
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• A3000 110 volt Amiga original.... $79.95 

• C64 4.3 amp power supply: Extra heavy duty $37.95 

• 1541 11/1581 drive: 220 volt (U.K.) $12.95 

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Amiga 1000 lo A2000 keyboard $15.95 

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Power Cord to PC/Amiga (6 ft) $6.95 

C64 io Commodore Disk Drive $12.95 

C64 Drive Extension $12.95 

C64to Monitor with 3 RCA Jacks $12.95 

SX64 Keyboard Adapter Interface Cable $16.95 

Printer Port Adapter cable. Interfaces any Commodore 
printer to work on any PC/PC clone $29.95 

VIDEO ENHANCERS 

■ Flicker Fixer by Microway (NTSC or PAL) $219.95 

• Flicker Blaster: Low cost. Works like the Flicker Free 
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• A500 External 3Vi" floppy drive: /case S62.95 

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• Slingshot: Gives A20O0 slot for your A500 Now take 
advanlageol all A2000 plug in boards $36.50 

• Analog Joystick Adapter: Use any IBM compatible 
joystick on your Amiga $13.95 

• Swirty 3 Button Amiga Mouse from Pyramid $22.50 

• 1084 Monitor Flyback Transformer S54.50 

• Commodore 1670 (1200 Baud) C64 Modem $9.95 

REPLACEMENT KEYBOARDS 

• Encoder Circuit Board for A500 keyboard $17.95 

• A500 Amiga keyboard (312502). Choose between 
American or British keyboard.. $37.50 

• A2000/3000 keyboard (factory freshl $59.95 

• A600 Keyboard Assembly $36.50 

• A1200 Keyboard Assembly $36.50 

CHIP EXTRACTORS 

• Goliath PLCC 8372 Agnus extractor $6.95 

• Extractor Plus Kit: Contains professional PLCC (Agnus)/ 
DIP chip puller and much needed torx screw driver. (List 
price S12.95). Our Price $7.95 

• Bumdy Chip Puller: Commodore recommended Agnus 
chip puller. Part irQXl $9.95 

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Monitor My Distress 

Q. I've been considering the purchase of an 
Amiga 1200 and Commodore 1960 moni- 
tor. At least one dealer suggested a Sony 
1302 quad-sync monitor instead of the 
1960. Should I get the 1960, the more 
expensive Sony 1302, or wail and see if 
Commodore releases a monitor specifically 
for the A 1200? 

Michael Darr 
Johnston, 1A 

A. The A1200 .shares roughly the same 
potential ibr video port capabilities as 
the A4000. With a confusing array of 
monitor choices for AGA machines, 
required leading includes "On Display" 
(June '93, p. 24), by Sheldon Leenion. 
With Commodore's Quad Sync 1942 
($699) on the way, and CBM planning 
to discontinue the 1960, expect to see 
price reductions that could make the 
I960 the monitor of choice for new 
A1200 users. The I960 lacks speakers, 
so run two RCA cables from the A1200 
to a low-cost boom box with left and 
right AUX input jacks, or use an old 
receiver and speakers. 



To CD or Not CD 

Q. Could you please list the CD software 
that's compatible with theA570 CD-ROM 
drive for the A500? Am I limited to the list 
of CDTV titles, or can I select software from 
the lengthy list of PC and Mac titles? Also, 
can the A570 work with DKB Software's 
MegAChip 2000/500? 

Chris Shepard 
APOAE 

A. CD-ROM technology can puzzle 
even many experienced computer users. 
Problems typically occur from confusing 
CD-ROM file-format compatibility with 
software compatibility, which are two 
separate issues. Both CDTV and the 
A570 share the industry-standard ISO- 
9660 CD-ROM format.' .Any CD-ROM 
that conforms to that standard can be 



By Tim Walsh 

read bv either CDTV or the A570. Au- 
dio CDs, CD+G, and CD+MIDI for- 
mats can also be used in the A570. 

The A570 can read font, graphic, 
sound, and text files from Mac- and 
PC-specific CD-ROMs. Even though 
the A570 adds 2MB of fast RAM, you'll 
probably need more, and some inter- 
platform conversion utilities — most of 
which are available in the public do- 
main — to tweak those non-Amiga files 
into Amiga-friendly form. As a rule of 
thumb, you can't run PC or Mac soft- 
ware on the Amiga without installing 
some form of software or hardware 
emulation. 

Finally, consider DBK Software's 
MegAChip 2000/500 for an A570. It 
gives access to 2MB of chip RAM, 
which is needed for large graphic files 
and display screens. 



Driving Those 
High-Density Roads 

Q. Following the recent upgrade to the 2. 1 
operating system on my A2000, 1 decided to 
install an A4000 high-density drive. My 
dealer explained that 2.1 supports this 
drive, however, I've been unable to find any 
commands to format disks in high-density 
mode. Is this drive capable of reading 1.44 
MS-DOS disks using my PC emulator? 

John A, Scotto 
Watertawn, NY 

A. First make sure that you are using 
high-density disks. Your Amiga can't 
place a high-density format on a dou- 
ble (low) density disk. If you don't have 
a GEnie account, find someone who 
does and get DRVI44.I.ZH (file num- 
ber 17920). 

Within DRV144.LZH is Gcrdisk.de- 
vice, which is needed in place of the 
standard Trackdisk. device; it also con- 
tains a mountlist to get the OS to rec- 
ognize an external high-density drive. 
You can also modify I he mounilist lo 
use with an internal drive. To do this 
change the default df2: mountlist ref- 



erences to either dfl : or dfO: (depend- 
ing on whether your high-density drive 
uses dfl or dfO internal connections), 
and likewise change unit numbers from 
2 to 1 or 0, and then resave the file. 
Version 2.1 of the Amiga OS should 
then be able to detect high-density 
disks in that drive. Use Consultron's 
CrossDOS or a similar PC utility to 
read, write, ancl format both double- 
and high-density MS-DOS disks. 



Programming Demands 

Q. I'd like to write a program to generate 
random numbers, display a chart and 
present screen prompts. One problem: 1 
haven't written a n\ programs on my Amiga. 
What's a good Amiga programming lan- 
guage? I learned ISA SIC wars ago. 

Ed Ouellette 
Norman, OK 

A. Since you already know BASIC;, 
you're probably aware your program- 
ming order isn't too tall. To accom- 
plish it, though, I'm a tittle hesitant to 
recommend the Amiga Basic that ac- 
companies older Amigas. If you have a 
newer Amiga, or are ]tist looking for a 
more comprehensive package, check 
out AMOS (SI 10) from Europress 
Software, which is one of the most 
complete BASIC packages available for 
the Amiga. If you want to really ex- 
pand your programming horizons, 
don't overlook the programming lan- 
guage called C. 

To get started w r ith C, try a beginner's 
course at a local community college, 
university or technical school. Before 
you begin the course, get a copy of 
SAS/C 6.0 for your Amiga from SAS 
Institute ($399). You can replicate most 
of what you learn in a class on your 
Amiga with SAS's package, since it uses 
true ANSI commands that are trans- 
portable to and from the Unix-based 
computers used by many schools. Best 
of all, you'll pick up marketable pro- 
gramming skills in the process. ■ 



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New Disks / 



VQii: imaging Enhancer - T3D converts Irragme objects to 
OFF, HFF. VORT. Raysnade. MlP, DXF and POV formatS- 
VOi'O: Imagine Enhancer* ICoons and iSL supplement the 
object and scene editors. 

FDB8: AmyBoulderdash - a dona ot the originaf classic. 
extremely well, done complete with level editor, 2 complete sets- 
Of levels and a Invel editor Requires Workbench- 2* 
FDB7: OXVO- A commercial quality game-slmitar la Marble 
Madness in nany wiiys, but allows two computers to link £ play 
together see how many ol [tie 200 landscapes you C£fi Com- 
plete.. SO C ha 1 1 tinging a hint book is available for mis game! 
FDB6: UChess: Thy strongest playing Chess program avail- 
able for the Amiga period. Req. 68030+, Workbench^*. 4MB 
RAM. Supports AGA 

WB129: Super Virus Killer ■ Front Sale Hex Inn. who cata- 
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WB12B: Co|oiFon|» - contains i2 color bitmap fonts for use 
will" DPamt 01 any Software that supports CplorFonls. Perfect 
for Mling 

WB127: Blankets - Over 2C different screen Wankers. Most 
run on Workbench 1 ,3-. ..a few require 2.0+ 
WS126: EdPlayer - music MOD player lhal looks, acts and 
plays like your CD player.. .AnigaWorlds #i MOD utility. Plus 
MOD songs. 

DD92: Developer Contains she official Commodore develop- 
ers kits lor the A-nigaGuide and Commodore Install Uiities ..a 
musl have for atl serious developers 

0D91 : ParBench Allows you to easily conned network two 
Armgas CDTVs logeiher ana 1 share storage devices. Req's 
WB2. and cusiom cable (docs 10 make cable included -easy f. 
DD90: Advanced Utilities - CompressDisk doubles Lhe 
capacny ct your narfl-drrve on mo fly with compression! 1 ! Also 
contains: disk optimizer, SCSI mount utility. Keymap editors, 
Enforcer, Unde'eter £ more. Most programs require ?.rj+ 



Fun Disks / 



FD6: GAMES! - This disk is chock full of games including; 
Checkers. Clue. GoW - A new slide lhe pieces puzzle. Jeopard 
An enhanced version of Risk. RushHour - Surprisingly addict- 
ing, and SpaceWar - Best described as a cro£s between 
Combat- Tanks and asteroids 

FD7: Pecman - This disk contains several paentan type 
games induing; PacMan87. MaaeMan and Zoni*. 
FD10: HackLite - A dungeon adventure game. Consicared a 
myst-ngve classic. This is the 2nd release cl this game. Great 
■yr.z^ :. ^ t--._t 3 i. —-■ *■■:. -•-■_ \^^-'- 
FD11: La» Vegas and Card Games - Las Vegas Craps ■ The 
best Las Vega; Craps simulEton every written lai any com- 
puter Contains extensive HELP features. Also Thirty- 
One .VtgeoPoker and more 

FDI2AFD12B: Star Trek. The Game This is by far lhe best 
Siar Trek game ewer written for any computer li features 
mouse control, good graphics, digged sound effects and 
great gamepiay Counts as 2 disks Req 1Mb and two drives 
lorhdl 

FD13: Board Games - contains. Monopoly, Dominoes. 
Parianods and others. 

FD14: Dungeon Master Hints and Arcade Games - CM 
maps, spells. ilBm location, and hints and more, also on Ihis 
r*sk, HbaB - an arkarx>dtyBa>£iijt type game, Tni - a t>» type 



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IBM - Uta or*, but TWO IBM emulators thai mil 
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l ! ! Co:r-4fS comp*t^wUl poQjarrjs !c turn your A-T»ga 
. ■ ■. - ,nTo 72SK ISM "-ivee. 

FD17: Educations! Games '- : ^;- -; _ce= '.-.-, --.■■■. -?.-si 

games also fadhxfefl VWlBel Dl FOlUlB. 

FD20: Tactical Games - MechForca: A game tnat simulates 
combat between two or more giant robois Simpie words can t 
begin to give you lhe feel of piloting a 30 - 40 loot tall, lire 
breathing, earth Shaking COLOSSUS mat ODOyS your every whim 
FD27: Arcade Gam** ■ This disk is loaded with some great 
garn^s. Includes, Raceorama a great racing car game with ten 
diffe-enl courses. MiniBiast a helicc^ter gynship type done. 
Shark in the same class as frngger. and SBreakout the cnglnal 
brea^cut with more. 

FD31: Games! - Air Tiaffic Control - a good ATC simulation, 
Black Jack Lab - a full feaSured set of card games. ChessTel - 
play chess with your mend in aistani and remote places wi:h 
this game and a modem, labyrnth - a welJ done teiri adventure 
game (like an inlocom rjamel. and MouseTrap - a 3d mare 
game 

FD3Z: Flight Simulator ■ An instrument flight simulalo- tor a 
DCirj 

FD31: Arcade Games ■ Fdeddy a Mano Broihors type ol 
game. GerbUs a targei practice game. PipeUne a German 
in!erp relation of Pipe Dreams r Tron a light cycles version, and 
Wetrctds a wonderful version of asteroids with a hilarious twist. 
FD35: Omega (v 1.3) - An wtetarelrtg dungeon and ou:doors 



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adventure game >n a similar vein as lack, rouge, and moril 
This version is considerably faster and betler mat aft previous 
versions. Play time: weeks. 
FD2B: Games - Cnbtage Master - A oreai cabbage game and 

tutor, Spades ■ a well done card came, Chinese Checkers - A 
ccrppulor version of this classic, Puiz - a slide piece puzzle 
game and canS!ruc':on set, 



WB105AB: Workbench 2+ Extras U2 

This, set contains the program* that should haw been 
included wirh WB2+. These powerful utilities take full 
advantage of the many new capabilities thai are available 
in Workbench 2*. Includes: Tooi Manager - a wonderful 
utility to add programs to your TOOL menu. Virus 
Protection - Degrader, icon - Eniancea Workbench's 
"Snow All" to display over 40 disftnd icons lor different 
types of fries. Bitmap Font Editor. Screen BtarAoTi * ata 
fractal and Sptiners and swarming bees I Requester 
Enhancers and GPUBlit Two disk set. counts as two. 



FD39A&B: Siar Trek, The New Generation - This is a com- 
plexly different versjon of Siar Trek than ihat found on FD1 2 
This one was cteaied by the German author Tobias. 
Excellent^ Counis as I wo disks. Requires 512R 
FD&0: Submarine Game Sealance, erne jnd a hail years in 
lhe making, this is an outstanding submarine tactical game 
Commercial quaHy, highly recommended. 
FDS7: Arcade Games - Includes £ truly commercial GjuaHly 
ggmes. MegaBail. an Arkancid-lsh game, features 5 musical 
scores and addicting gamepay Gravi:y Atlack Js a psyched el- 
lic :r p through several different worlds— each dillerenf 
FD59: Gome Potpourri - Xenon III is, an almost OX&Cl Clone Ol 
the commercial game of the same name .a great shootemup 
Crossword will tiiko II a to of words & automaiically generate 
word-search puzzles for any Epson compalible printer 
FD60: Gam** • In Nebula, race over a 3d world lo destroy 
enemy installations Interferon, a graal Dr Mario done 
Emgma. is it a game or puzzle 7 

FD61 : Games - Sofitaire; greal graphics, pfays two versions 
Klkfe; an interesting pisse of eye cancy. Extreme Violence; 2 
player kffl or be killed game. YATC; A Telris done with Arlifical 
Intelligence Genesis; create r&alislic 3d fractal worlds 
FD62: PomPom Gunner. An erijemely smoolh and we=l dsna 
World War I gunner simulation Requires 1 megabyte of 
memory 

FD&a: Games - Winy's. Quasi ■ a 'great' 50 level game Wilh 
greai graphics. CuDus - a 3. dimensional Tains type game 
{rotate and mqve in 3 dimensions). H'uSker Ou - Colors and 
pattern raihc lhan shape in this Tetris-Bsque game. 6 screens 
and 3 fevats of dtSftcuity. Requires Fai Agnus p Itog of Ch^l 
FD67: Arcade - includes Uamalron a well-done 'Mobotron 3 
done. Hate is a "tetrSic' Zaitxon clone wilh multiple 
levelsAnrCnlds andi smooth diagonal seroUmg .a 10-1 
FDf>9: MindGames - Han enough o* shootem up games? 
Relax and let these 21 games exercise your mma in^:e,i[* of 
yourwJtsl 

FD73: Arcade Series - Intruder Alert 1 is a MULTMsvel 
"Berserk" done Features smooih gameplsy, great giaph-cs & 
digitized sound I'* 

FD74: ArcBde Series ■ RmgWar is an "Outer Limits" clone 
with vectorized graphics. MoinerLode is a "Lode Runner' 
done with &0 levels' In BliizTanks.. they re commg at you from 
all directions" Call in air strikes and use your heavy artillery to 
survive! 

FD75: Arcade Series ■ Descender is a clone of the classic 
arcade game "Tempest'; complete with vecionzed graphics 
Tarn is the classic battle ol Irajeclonos and mama between 
two l an ks^m credibly well done 1 Search is a maze game 
unlike any ctner — included r$ a level editor loo flan* requires 
I meg chip memory.Fal Agnus} 

FD77: Arcade Series ■ Gaiaoa'92 is a clone ei the arcade 
game with several gamcplay enhancements --with smooooth. 
sharp graphics, rt/s better than the ortg-naJ 1 Pharaohs Curse is 
a done of iha original C54 dassc Diplomacy is a beautilully 
computenzec wers>on of the Ava'on Hi J board game-cc-nouer 

The AmigaWorld "BEST-Or h Set! 

FDB5ABCD: AmigiWotWi Best - Th &S u four dirks con- 
tain tn* AdlftMrp-'dgamwof 92' tncfude* Mouw Lode, 
f,foris. M:nefje«. Porng, Intrude* Alert, Dilute PacMan, 
Rechy and Super A/tSery (see Dec *92 AmigaWoridj Four 
o+3>; set, counts as tn? e*. 

FD&l : SupcrGames - Some ct Re MSI games -Donkey Kong 
is bener than the original with an e*fra reve*" Frannc Fredd e 
and TraiiBlaier are both last-paced arcade games Mad 
Bomber is the classic game of "Kaooorn" redone with an Amiga 
fare. All ol these games are e^ceHem 1 

FD82: Intrepid - in the Arctic ice. you control a tank on a mis- 
sion to rescue hostages in this superbly crafted Amiga original 
FD84: Gam«s>! Delune PacMan is better than lhe original - 
20* mazes, special "power-ups" wuh oustandtng graphics 
ThinkAmania is the classic game of coroefiTraijon-wsth beaifti- 
ft/tfydrawTi Hi^es images. 

Workbench Disks / 

WB4 telecommunication Ths disk ccnlams several excel- 
leni pd commjnication progiams: Access l 42, Comm l .3-1 S 
Handshake 2 12a. See also WB102 & WBM5 

WB5: Foni»*l- Several lonls (35) lor lhe Amiga, also includ 
ed are live PageSrream fonts, and ShcwFont ■ a Ponl display 
program. 

WB6: Fonts #2 ■ ShowFont allows you lo quicMy and 
painlessly Mrew all 256 Characters in a typical font, Induces 
large AmigaDos system fonts Imany up to Sfapts) 
WB7: Clip Art - This disk is loaded wth War* and white clip 
art Art includes, trees, watches, loo's, US and Stata maps, 



and more 

WB9: Icons - Truly a multitude Of various typSS and kinds 
Also includes iconMiester, tconLab. and ethers great utilities 10 
help generate icons 

WB10: Vlrut Killers The best: V>rusX(4 0j, Kv(2 11. and 
ZerOVirus III 

WBI 2: Disk Utilities - This greai disk is loaded with wonderlul 
utBttH lor avefything including making disk labels, disk cata- 
loging, disk optimizing, disk and Me recovery archive and orga- 
nizing, and an sons of hie manipulation A must have 1 
WBI3AB: Primer Drivers end Generalo* ■ over 70 different 
drivers Itricuovng HP LaserJet 3 A 4'). also includes a printer- 
dn/er generator Two disk set counts 34 two 
WBt5; Bualneis - This disk contains a spreadsheet, a 
database, a protect we manecjement program and financial 
anatysd (Hocks) 

WB18: Ward T«i| Processors - This disk contains lhe best 
editors includes. TexiPI us {v2 2e) a full feniurod word proces- 
sor. Dme(vi 35) a greal programmers ed lor wi:h strong macro 
features.TenED(v2 Bi an ennanced Emacs type editor, and a 
Spell Checker. 

WB22: Fonts s3 ■ Several more great lonis. These, like the 
other font disks work greai witn Dpaint and WYSIWYG word 
processors 

WB23; Graphics and Plotting Ploi. a 3D mathematical 
function ploEler Can plot any user oelined lync'ion, BezSurl2 - 
produce awesome pictures ot objects one could turn on a 
lalha Can also map IFF image litos onto any surface Ihat it can 
draw Now compatible with mosi 3D packages, and VScreen - 
makes a virtual screen anywhere 

WB25; Educational - On ihis disk are two programs Ihat can 
generate maps of differing types. World Daia Base uses the 
CIA s data base to gcrera'e dela led maps of any entered user 
global coordinates Also Parados a great demonstration of 
Alberi Einstein General Theory of HelalrviTy 
WB27: Nagel 26 Patrick Nagei pictures ol beautiful women. 
WB29: Graphic* end Sound - This disk has several different 
Mandolbrol typo programs producing stunning graphics 
Includes. MandutMcuntains - a realistic lorrain generator. 
Fracgen ■ generate recursive fractals IrOTI user input. 
Mandelbrot and Tmandel < iwo fasi mande!b T ol generators, 
also Moslra - Iho best IFF display program lo date. Sound - a 
great IFF sound player, will play anything 
WB33:Clreuli Board Design - several terrific routines lor the 
electronic enthusiast, Inducing PCBtool - a orcuil board design 
loot. LogicLab - circuit logic tester, and Mead 1 1 2fij a well 
done new release ol the PD CAD program, now comes with 
predrawn common =ircui| components lor insertion into 
schematics. 

WB35: 3D Graphics - This disk contains 3Fon|s ■ Full vector 
font set for use with 3d programs, FoniM ikm ■ make 3d fonts 
from any rtysiem font. MnkuaDShape - create 3d shapes from 
any image, DumpiolFf - create 3d anlmaiions preserves pal- 
let. WorW3d ■ a demo of a front and for use wjth DKBRender, 
WB3*j; Graphics - On this disk are several programs to create 
stunning graphical images including. MPalh • creates swilling 
galaxy images. Roses ■ produce an unlimited number o! varia- 
tions ol images Ihat a symmetrically similar lo a rose, SimGon ■ 
display those spectacular images as pan ol your wc-ikc-encfi, 
and RayShade - a very good Kiylrncng program, create your 
own beautiful 3d graphic models with this onel 
WB37: Educational Educalional games and puzzles Ihat 
cover math, geography, spelling and books Ages E - 15 
WB2B: Plaiting end Graphics - Plotxy is a powerful lull fea- 
tured plotting package Used by many colleges and universi- 
ties Highly recommended Plans ■ a incredibly well done 
Computer Aided Dralimg program, very lull featured 
Tesselalor - a program thai helps generaws faiiastfc looking, 
recursive MC Ecsher type pictures 

WB41: Music MED an incredibly well done, lull featured 
music editor. Create your own stunning muse directly on your 
lhe Amiga. Similar to SoundTrapkor put betler Very powerful 
easy lo use program. Vat&ion 3 20-compatiblo wilh WB2> 
WB43: Business • Thud'Sk conlainB AnalytiCaic probably 
lhe most powerful sp-eBdsheel program cm Iha Amiga A lull 
featured spreadsheet with many features enpected in a com- 
mercial package. Reg t 2 MB 

Special Product! 

OTl: The A54 Package - A vrjcy complete 
Commodore 64 emulator. Supports, any CPU and is 
lully compalible with WBi 3 S. 2.0 TTiis version 
includes a special adaptor that will allow you to con- 
ned your &4's 1 5-1 1 disk drive to your parallel pari ol 
your Amiga for total emulation. Two d.sk set. Counte 
as two. Special price $d9 95 - including hardware. 

WB46: Clip Art ■ HighRes dp ait wiin me tolowing motifs • 
embellishmenis (borders, dodads . ]. people i transponaiion. 
WB47: Clip An - Hires Clip art Molrfs ■ hair, drafting, summer. 
animals and maclOOd 

WB4B: Clip Art H*es cup an Motils - Hplflayj, music, medi- 
cal. andmisc 

WBSO: Animation Seven of tne besl euro style animations or 
"Demos" mcludng - icientilie 45t. subway, struide. Ihrstde- 
mo, tmght. waves, anc woow 

WBS3; Graphics - Raytracing program; generate ahsoluiely 
slunning realistic kjokng planes, rockets, buikhngs. . , and sur- 
real images. C-Light js the most powerful EASY-TO-USE of 
rts kind we have seen to date This is easily better, and more 
full featured, than simitar commercial programs ccsung m the 
hundreds of dollars Also. sMove - a full leatured video ten 
hlier similar to ProVidso. Broadcast Titter Great video 
scre-lling. wipes, special efl»cW, and more... 
WB54: Priming - Ths disk contams several routines to help 
with the chore of prinung Includes Gothic - Finally a Banner 
printer lor the PD ' PiintStudio -a weti impiemenied all purpose 
pnnler-utility with a very comfortable graphic interface and 
many advanced leatures. Ua ■ with ease, print ASCI files to a 
PostScript printer, and more 

WBSS: Application ■ XCopylll -.a full featured disk copier, 
make Backups ol copy proiecied disks RoadRoute ■ fcnd the 
quickest route from one cdy to another, nigh way description 
included Diary a Orflry program like "Dougy Houser M D*, Cat 
• a calendar program. Mag man ■ a database tailored lor arti- 
cles and publications 

WB57; Animation - This, ditk has several "Dodio" style ani- 
mations, including, Bitter. Lolly . Suns, vertigo, vortex, and 
•enomorpl 

WBB2: Midi Utilities Several useful mkfi uhtities including, 
programs lo transfer to and from several music programs to 
mrdi, a midi sysex handier, a midi recorder w:|ri timebase, dis- 
play midi inlQ. file sequence player, arid a lew scores 
WB63: Disk Ulllllles #3 - Several highly reconmended pro- 
grams to aid m removng duplicate dies from your hard drtve, 
performing file bacttups, Binary odilmg. fast formatting, lile 
recovery, disk track recovery, and (creed disk vaidalion | cor- 
rupi disks 

WB66: Icons «- Lot s ol neat icons. Also, several wonderful 
programs tnai to let you create your own .cons, modily and 
manipulate Icons and into struciures. 

W0&9: Music ■ 90 minutes of classical and modem electronic 
muSid for you Amiga 
WB75: Music ■ over 100 inslmmenis files ( msi| and sample 



sound files [.%$) 

rV679: Home ft Busines» Accounting ■ includes Ckoacct ■ 
the most complete checkbook accounting program gong. 
LCCCaic - this well done calculator has a ^ery large display 
and operates from the keycoard or mouse. M'le&ge master - 
n-crito! four automobile mileage with Ihis mileage log. 

Grammar .1 r.t.i ar cnec*f 1 and vVorlotime Find CLl what 

time it ts in up to SO global cities. 

CDE. Font Sol This cosect^ri contains over tOO 

: tot lwi with FWessronaf Fas^PugeSeuef J* or 

n?i. These forte * 

« or dot-maJnx c 

fqna. Very i 
WB81 : Great Applications - DataEasy a very easy Id use. 
database program. Doni lei the ease of use tool you. this is a 
very full featured database program including M printer control 
for address labels and mail merge applications. Also includes. 
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WB114: Fonts #4 ■ Contains 35 bitmap system fonts 
WB1 15; Telecommunication - II you have AmigaDOS 2 04. 
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DD&4: Compression 7- ; o:s* ; o^ded wilh all ot the besl 
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DD7IAB: C Compiler ■ This disk contains DICE. Matl hew 
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program will automatically generate "C" source code or 
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Drive Is Music Software 

1 24 Crescent Road, Suite 3 
Needham, MA 02194 
617/455-1454 

dtiBois Animation 
10 1 2 N.Charlratid, #F 
Edmond, OK 73034 
405/348-4670 

Electric Theatre 

111 Holme Ave., #2 
Efkins Park, PA 19117 

215/379-4538 

Electronic Arts 

1450 Fashion Island Blvd. 

San Mateo. CA 94404 
800/245-1525 

Elite Microc omp uters 

138 Turner St. 

Port Reading, NJ 07064 

908/541-4214 

Fred Fish 

Catalog Disk Update 
1 835 li. Belmont Drive 
I empe. AZ 85284 

Gemstone Group 

21 Hi Independence ! .anc. Ste HIS 

Madison, WI 53704 

008 240-846-1 

GEnie 

401 North Washington 

Rockvil!e,MD 20850 

800/638-9636 



Godfrey & .Associates 
544 Queen St.. Chatham 
Ontario, Canada N'7M 2J6 
519 136-0988 

Gold Disk, Inc. 

21 Ni75 South Western Ave.. Ste 120 

Torrance, CA 90501 

213/320-5080 

(ileal Yallev Products 

600 Clark Ave. 

King of Prussia, PA 19406 

215/337-8770 

Hash Enterprises 
2800 E Evergreen Blvd. 
Vancouver, WA 98661 
206/573-9427 

Haitex Resources 
PO Bos; 20609 
Cliarleston.SC 294 13 
803/881-7518 

HoQyware Entertainment 
13464 Washington Blvd. 
Marina Del Rev. CA 90291 
310/822-920(1 ' 

Impulse 

8416 Xerxes Ave^N. 

Brooklyn Park, MN 

lmerplav Productions 
17922 Fitch Ave. 
Irvine, Ca 92714 

714/553-6655 

INOVAtronics 

S499 Greenville Ave,, Ste 209B 

Dallas, TX 75231 

214/340-4991 

Inset Systems 

71 Commerce Drive 

Brookfield, CT 06804 

203/740-2400 

Interactive Video Systems 
721.1 ( jardea Grove Blvd. Ste E 
Garden Grove, CA 92(H 1 
714/890-7040 

Intel-galactic Development 

1427 Washington Street 
Davenport. IA 52804 
319/323-3293 

Interplay Productions 
17922 Fitch Ave. 
[nine. Ca 92714 
/ 1 4/553-6655 

KarmaSoft 
PO Box 1034 
Golden, CO 80402 
303/420-2939 

kill.,Ii( Ixmr Productions 
PO Box 2010561 
Austin. TX 78720 
512/346-4005 

I citns Development 
55 Cambridge Parkway 
Cambridge, MA 02 142 
617/577-8500 

MachTen 

28 Heathrow Manor Court 

Baltimore. MD 21236 

800/925-3587 

MacroSystem 
17019 Smuggler's Cove 
Ml Clemens. MI 48038 
313/263-0095 



Magni Systems 
9500 S\V Gemini Drive 
Beaverton, OR 97005 
503/626-8400 

MegageM 
[903Adria 

Santa Monica, CA 93454 
805/349-1104 

Micro-Pace Distributors 
Commercial ParkW, Suite C 

Champaign. II 6IS2I 
217/356-1885 

Micro Botics 

1251 American Pkwy, 

Richardson, "IX 75081 

214/437-5330 

Microsoft 
16011 NE36ih 

Redmond, WA 98073 
206/882-8301 

Natural Graphics 

4603 Slate Ct. 
Rocklin. CA 95677 
916/624-1436 

NewTek 

215S.E.SthSL 
Topeka. KS 66603 
800/843-8934 

Nik lens l.k-itionii s 
POBox 1025 

Nobleton, Ontario, Canada 
U6/859-5218 

Ocean Software 
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Octree Software 

1955 Landings Drive 
Mountain View. CA 94043 
415/390-9600 

Parallel Motion Graphics 
10 Stewart Court. Suite 78 
Orangeville, Ontario 
Canada L9W 3Z9 
519/942-8822 

Portal Communications Co, 
20863 Stevens Creek Blvd., 

Suite #200 
Cupertino. CA 950 1 4 
408/973-91 1 1 

PreVue Technologies 

PO Box 2617 

Grass Valley, CA 95945 

916/477-2905 

800/356-8863 

Progressive PelipbriaK.s.- SU" 
■10 i Kalamath St. 
Denver. CO 80204 
303/825- 1 111 

Prolific 

6905 Oslo Circle, SteS 

Buena Park, CA 90621 
714/994-6435 

Psyguosis 

675 Massachusetts Ave. 

Cambridge, MA 02139 

617/497-5457 

RcadySoft 

39 Wenheim Court. Unit 2 

Richmond Hill. Out. 

Canada LIB 1B9 

416/731-4175 



Rcalsoli 

Dhlrilmtnl In Godfief &f Associates 

Scala Inc. 

1211(1 Sunset Hills Road, Ste 100 

Reston, VA 22090 

703/709-8242 

ShaderSoft 
363 1 Colby SW 
Wyoming, Ml 49509 
616/531-6083 

Sigma Designs 

47900 Baystde Parkway 

Fremont, CA94538 

510,770-0100 

Software of the Month Club 
5816 Dry-den Place 

Carlsbad. CA 92008 
019/931-8111 

Solhvare Toolworks 
60 Leveroni Conn 
\ovain,CA 94949 
415 883-3000 

SunRize Industries 

2959 S. Winchester Blvd., Ste 21)4 

Campliell, CA 95008 

408/374-4962 

Supra 

7101 Supra Drive S.W. 

Albany, OR 97321 

503, 91 i7-240i» 

Svtjiicsi 

4701 Bayside Parkway 

Fremont. CA 94538 

510/226-4000 

Technical Tools 
2S461 Cherice Drive 

Wairenville. II. 60555 
7(>S / 393-035ll 

Three-Sbtty 

Distributed In FJet tram Arts 

Lnili Graphics 
143 [.outline Ave. 
Pittsburg, CA 94565 

510/139-1580 

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I Ml McCulloch Blvd., Ste 25-124 

Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403 

602/680-9004 

Virgin (.allies 

18061 Fitch Ave., Suite C 
Irvine. CA 92714 

714/833-8710 

\ ii mal Reality Laboratories 
234 1 ( ianador Court 
San Luis Obispo. CA 93401 
805545-8515 

Visual Surface Technology 
1331 St. Louis Avenue 
Kansas City, MO 64101 
913/764-5102 

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Kudos, complaints, comments, concerns, and contributions from our readers. 



Double Standard 

I ran a BBS for Amiga and IBM 
computer users. All users can down- 
load commercial software demos for 
free from my system. This is a free 
service to all Amiga and IBM software 
developers. Out of the 172 letters that 
I sent to Amiga developers, only four 
companies responded with software 
demos. 1 have never had any problem 
getting software for the IBM users. It is 
not fair to the Amiga users. I even had 
one Amiga company tell me that it 
would be glad to send me a demo if I 
sent $10. I asked this company's repre- 
sentative if he ever got charged for 
looking at a stereo or a new car and he 
hung up on me. 

Ron Wells 
Inleniatitmitl Data Exchange 



Fish Lovers Unite! 

I recently found out that Fred Fish 
might stop making his Fish disks be- 
cause of lack of subscribers. All of us 
have, or at least have access to, this 
library, but how many of us received it 
from the big man hiuisellT- This man 
has done a lot for all of us; not many 
libraries have more than 800 disks with 
the latest versions of I'll and share- 
ware, We all need to pool our resources 
and show this man how much he 
means to us. A collection or something, 
even a letter to let him know we care, 
might help. One thing's for sure, it's 
our fault that this is happening and we 
need to do something. 

Jeffrey F. Fink 
Normal. //, 



RSVP With CPU 

Now that Intel has come out with its 
new Pentium CPU chip, said to be 
main times faster than Motorola's 
68040, are we in for another long dry 
spell far behind the competition? Com- 
modore was smart enough to design 
the A4000 with a plug-in socket for any 



new CPUs produced by Motorola, so 
they can be inserted without re-engi- 
neering the whole thing. But when will 
Motorola release its new 68050 or 
whatever can compare with Intel's 
Pentium? 

Henry Williams 
Cincinnati, OH 



Font Guide Addenda 

I read with interest Jeff James' arti- 
cle on fonts ("The ABCs of Amiga 
Fonts," April '93, p. 51). However, he 
was wrong when he said thai Mac Post- 
Script fonts are not compatible with 
Amiga programs that use PostScript. 
Not knowing any better, I bought a 
collection of 120 PS Type 1 typefaces 
from Casady & Crcene. Not all of the 



/ asked this company's 

representative if he ever got 

charged for looking at a 

stereo or a new car and tie 

hungup on me. 



fonts came with [he AFM hies that 
Gold Disk's FontManager needs for 
conversion but, no problem, I loaded 
those into Altsys's Fontographer and 
regenerated the AFM files. Mac PS 
printer fonts are located on the re- 
source fork of the file in MacBinary, 
while the AFM files are in ASCII on the 
data fork of their file. ReadySoft's 
AMax II includes a very good utility 
that will send these into Amiga format 
with no problem. Altsys's Metamorpho- 
sis Pro will convert IBM PostScript and 
TrueType fonts into Mac format (and 
vice versa), and Type 3 fonts into Type 
1, which is compatible with the Amiga. 



All the Amiga user needs to use Mac 
fonts is a Mac-to-Amiga conversion 
program. 

Dave Jackson 

Weatherford College 



TV Tie-In 

To many Amiga enthusiasts, Com- 
modore's advertising (or lack of it) is 
extremely frustrating. Certainly, inde- 
pendent magazines, like yours, do 
what they can. I think you could get 
more people to at least pick up your 
magazine at the newsstand and hope- 
fully buy it if you made some mention 
of the Amiga's use in TV production. 
Most of my friends are not interested 
in image processing or video effects, 
but mention the fact that shows like 
Deep Sjiiice 9 are using the Amiga 
extensively, and all of a sudden they 
start asking questions. 

Paul Cimino 
Culph Mills, PA 



AGA Deadlock 

By fielding ACA without retargeting 
capability, CBM has excluded the 
majority of its customers from the 
mainstream without an upgrade path. 
So who would purchase an AGA video 
card? Probably most owners of A3000s 
and accelerated A2000s (not to men- 
tion a good number of those adventur- 
ous owners of accelerated AfiOOs). If 
the majority of the installed consumer 
base could access AGA with retarget- 
able software and a video card, there 
would also be little risk to software 
developers. Some of the PC-only devel- 
opers might even consider a three 
million plus, and growing, market 
worthy of consideration. 

John C. Comerford 
Woodland Hills, C4 

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